Bug#335230: [#335230] How to actually support EVMS in an initrd

2005-10-23 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 10:01:02PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 09:47:12PM +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: Alle 21:18, sabato 22 ottobre 2005, Steinar H. Gunderson ha scritto: EVMS support in yaird should not be difficult to add for someone who already knows yaird.

Bug#335230: [#335230] How to actually support EVMS in an initrd

2005-10-23 Thread Erik van Konijnenburg
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 01:07:26PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote: On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 10:01:02PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 09:47:12PM +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: Alle 21:18, sabato 22 ottobre 2005, Steinar H. Gunderson ha scritto: EVMS support in yaird

Bug#335230: [#335230] How to actually support EVMS in an initrd

2005-10-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 01:07:26PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote: On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 10:01:02PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 09:47:12PM +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: Alle 21:18, sabato 22 ottobre 2005, Steinar H. Gunderson ha scritto: EVMS support in yaird

Bug#335230: [#335230] How to actually support EVMS in an initrd

2005-10-23 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 13:07, domenica 23 ottobre 2005, hai scritto: We need a perl hacker. Mattia, maybe you would like to jump in here too ? I hope i am not abusing by asking you that :) Oh, well, I'd really like to :) Only problem I have is that I don't have any EVMS system available. Can be simulated

Bug#335230: [#335230] How to actually support EVMS in an initrd

2005-10-23 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 02:36:29PM +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: Alle 13:07, domenica 23 ottobre 2005, hai scritto: [... system setup suggestions ...] My old PII is definitely dead, I'm going with the qemu option, but it's taking quite long. Will see if this week I manage to get a spare PC to play

Bug#335230: [#335230] How to actually support EVMS in an initrd

2005-10-22 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
Just thought I'd take my EVMS maintainer hat on and try to add some constructive input to this: EVMS support in yaird should not be difficult to add for someone who already knows yaird. Basically, what you need to do is: - If root= is not /dev/evms/*, _do not do anything in the initrd_. If you

Bug#335230: [#335230] How to actually support EVMS in an initrd

2005-10-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 09:18:44PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: Just thought I'd take my EVMS maintainer hat on and try to add some constructive input to this: EVMS support in yaird should not be difficult to add for someone who already knows yaird. Basically, what you need to do is:

Bug#335230: [#335230] How to actually support EVMS in an initrd

2005-10-22 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 21:18, sabato 22 ottobre 2005, Steinar H. Gunderson ha scritto: EVMS support in yaird should not be difficult to add for someone who already knows yaird. Basically, what you need to do is: We need a perl hacker. Code speaking, I'm not a perl hacker, too bad, but I understood that,

Bug#335230: [#335230] How to actually support EVMS in an initrd

2005-10-22 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 09:47:12PM +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: - Make sure /dev/ is writable, and mkdir /dev/evms. Translate this in perl plz :-) Well, the make sure part depends on how yaird works. You may have to mount a tmpfs over /dev/evms if the initrd is read-only. (This is during _boot_

Bug#335230: [#335230] How to actually support EVMS in an initrd

2005-10-22 Thread Erik van Konijnenburg
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 09:54:54PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 09:47:12PM +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: - Make sure /dev/ is writable, and mkdir /dev/evms. Translate this in perl plz :-) Well, the make sure part depends on how yaird works. You may have to

Bug#335230: [#335230] How to actually support EVMS in an initrd

2005-10-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 09:47:12PM +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: Alle 21:18, sabato 22 ottobre 2005, Steinar H. Gunderson ha scritto: EVMS support in yaird should not be difficult to add for someone who already knows yaird. Basically, what you need to do is: We need a perl hacker. Mattia,