Chris Sakalis said the following at 06/21/2012 01:57 PM : > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:39 PM, D. R. Evans <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Sorry for the stupid question, but do you rebuild the init ram image >>> after changing your mkinitcpio.conf ? >> >> I don't understand the question, so it's not at all stupid. I'm just >> following >> the instructions on the wiki. The wiki says to edit mkinitcpio.conf >> immediately prior to the reboot, so that's what I'm doing. It doesn't mention >> any need to rebuild an image (nor how to do it). >> >> Doc >> >> -- >> Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR >> > > On the wiki, it does not mention anything about rebuilding your > initramfs, because mkinitcpio is called automatically by the installer > after the configuration phase. However: > > mkinitcpio.conf is read by the mkinitcpio utility in order to create > the initial ramdisk image. Essentially, it's a bunch of stuff needed > by the kernel before the root filesystem is made available. After you > edit the mkinitcpio.conf file, you HAVE to rebuild[1] your initramfs > image, in order for the changes to actually take effect. If you just > edit the file and then reboot, nothing is done. >
My turn to ask a stupid question, because I'm sure your explanation makes
perfect sense to someone who understands this stuff, but I don't: my previous
experience with installing Linux on RAID was with Ubuntu, for which I didn't
need to mess with any of this.
Are you saying that between these instructions:
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Add the dm_mod module to the MODULES list in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf.
Add the mdadm_udev and lvm2 hooks to the HOOKS list in
/etc/mkinitcpio.conf after udev.
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and the next step:
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Once it is complete you can safely reboot your machine:
# reboot
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there should be some additional step(s)?
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> [1] -
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio#Image_creation_and_activation
That seems to say that I should run mkinitcpio, but that step isn't mentioned,
even adumbratively, anywhere on
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Software_RAID_and_LVM#RAID_installation
Hopelessly, completely, lost and beginning to despair....
Doc
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