On Saturday 03 May 2014 23:04:49 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 03.05.2014 22:50, schrieb Peter Humphrey: > >> Yes, I noticed that annoyance myself. I would much prefer it to default > >> to > >> more logical names. > > > > If the docs had included that little snippet I'd have saved myself many a > > frustrating hour. I'll only look stupid if I tell you how many ;-) > > > > Anyway, I don't want to hijack the thread. I just wanted to point out that > > raid arrays don't need lvm2 or mdraid present to auto-start, at least not > > on my openrc box which also has no initramfs. > > Thanks for your contribution.
My pleasure. > I spent nearly the whole day digging around this issue ... You did better than I did recently: I spent four days at it. > I wonder if I speak for more users when I say that all this is kind of > confusing sometimes ... I'm with you there, Stefan. I find the whole RAID and LVM area deeply mysterious, and the docs I've seen only say what to do, not why. I'd still like to find a proper explanation of how it all works. > I am not so far to skip the initramfs -> I don't *know* that, I just > tested removing the line from grub2 and it failed finding the root-fs. I've never had an initramfs, seeing no need in my case to keep /usr on its own partition. > For booting from a plain partition on an SSD I think I shouldn't need an > initramfs? Does it have to do with MBR/GPT as well (the SSD is > still/again MBR, as UEFI booting broke badly for me back then) ? As far as I know, the only thing that /requires/ an initramfs is having a separate /usr. And I can't help you with GPT or UEFI - sorry. > Maybe I learn more soon ;-) I sometimes say that life is just one long journey of discovery :-) -- Regards Peter
