Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs only, without dracut

2014-05-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.05.2014 20:48, schrieb Greg Turner: On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.atwrote: It seems to not detect or interpret correctly the fact that there are 2 physical devices in there and then the linux ... line for grub.cfg gets messed up, at least for me

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs only, without dracut

2014-05-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:04 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 17.05.2014 20:48, schrieb Greg Turner: But if you have it working now without any initramfs then obviously that is full of win (the LA kind, not the Redmond variety)! I wonder if there are any real advantages of

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs only, without dracut

2014-05-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.05.2014 15:39, schrieb Rich Freeman: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:04 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: ... it seems to me that this adds something like an additional layer around certain things and helps to make all that more bulletproof? Now that I know how to use dracut

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs only, without dracut

2014-05-19 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: Now that I know how to use dracut I'm basically using it everywhere, even for VMs that have a single ext4 partition (where it really is a bit overkill). For the most part it is plug-and-play, and once you start getting multiple disks involved it adds a lot of robustness.

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs only, without dracut

2014-05-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.05.2014 22:51, schrieb Dale: I might add, I used dracut for a while. A while back when I went to boot back up, shutdown because my power went out, the init thingy failed. I had zero clue on how to fix it so I edited grub to ignore the init part and booted up the old way. Once booted,

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs only, without dracut

2014-05-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/05/2014 23:43, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 19.05.2014 22:51, schrieb Dale: I might add, I used dracut for a while. A while back when I went to boot back up, shutdown because my power went out, the init thingy failed. I had zero clue on how to fix it so I edited grub to ignore the

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs only, without dracut

2014-05-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.05.2014 17:56, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: sda3 /root (the old ext4) sda5 /root (the new btrfs) sorry for the missing precision here ... I don't mean /root but the root filesystem here for sure ... Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs only, without dracut

2014-05-17 Thread Greg Turner
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.atwrote: It seems to not detect or interpret correctly the fact that there are 2 physical devices in there and then the linux ... line for grub.cfg gets messed up, at least for me here. ACK, genkernel initramfs doesn't btrfs