On 03/18/2012 10:44 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > Creating a new thread for this questions since mine got lost in all > of the follow-ups...
I actually read a good response, but I can't possibly find it again :) I do recall that it said to look at your grub.conf (menu.lst) to see if grub passes an initrd= or rdinit= to the kernel during bootup. The other nifty hint was to add "panic=10" as a kernel parameter in grub.conf (menu.lst) so that your remote system will reboot in 10 seconds if the kernel panics during boot. That will let you test (remotely) if a kernel parameter like "noinitrd" breaks your machine. > I have a remote system that has /usr on a separate partition. > > So... > > How do I find out if I am actually *using* an initramfs right now (I > know it is built into the kernel), and > > If I am not, how do I do this without using genkernel? Is dracut the > *only* other option? Is it easy/trivial to set one up manually? > > I cannot imagine that gentoo is just going to throw me to the wolves > like this without providing *in-depth* instructions on how to make > sure my system will boot after this update, like they did with the > baselayout-2 update... > > Personally, I have no problem with not having a separate /usr any > more, except that I have 3 remote systems that I manage right now > that already *have* a separate /usr... > > On that note - is it possible, and if so, does anyone have any decent > detailed How-to's on how I might be able to convert a separate /user > to one on directly on / on a running system? > >
