[blfs-support] initramfs

2014-04-15 Thread Richard Melville
Out of interest I've just read the above page in the book. I *don't* use an initramfs, but I do have a rootfs mounted on a btrfs subvolume (similar in some ways to LVM). I have a GPT boot partition formatted with ext2 on a USB flash drive, and I'm using syslinux as a boot loader. In case others

[blfs-support] Initramfs, systemd. No /dev/mapper/* symlinks

2013-07-21 Thread Nathan Coulson
I build a nice new shiny systemd build (my first bootable attempt). My root (and a few other partitions) are on a lvm partition, sitting on top of a mdraid1 array. When it boots the initramfs mounts root just fine, (root=/dev/ssd.vg/root), but the system only has /dev/mapper/control (when I would

Re: [blfs-support] Initramfs, systemd. No /dev/mapper/* symlinks

2013-07-21 Thread Nathan Coulson
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Nathan Coulson conat...@gmail.com wrote: I build a nice new shiny systemd build (my first bootable attempt). My root (and a few other partitions) are on a lvm partition, sitting on top of a mdraid1 array. When it boots the initramfs mounts root just fine,

[blfs-support] initramfs mistake

2012-05-01 Thread xinglp
do_mount_root() { mkdir /.root [ -n $rootflags ] rootflags=$rootflags, rootflags=$rootflags$ro case $root in /dev/* ) device=$root ;; UUID=* ) eval $root; device=/dev/disk/by-uuid/$UUID ;; LABEL=*) eval $root; device=/dev/disk/by-uuid/$LABEL ;; LABEL=*)

Re: [blfs-support] initramfs mistake

2012-05-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
xinglp wrote: do_mount_root() { mkdir /.root [ -n $rootflags ] rootflags=$rootflags, rootflags=$rootflags$ro case $root in /dev/* ) device=$root ;; UUID=* ) eval $root; device=/dev/disk/by-uuid/$UUID ;; LABEL=*) eval $root; device=/dev/disk/by-uuid/$LABEL