On Sunday 04 May 2014 12:37:02 J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Sunday, May 04, 2014 09:53:35 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Saturday 03 May 2014 23:04:49 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > > I spent nearly the whole day digging around this issue ... > > > > You did better than I did recently: I spent four days at it. > > For mission-critical systems, I would have done a clean re-install already > with data copied back from a backup. More then 24 hours is a deadline.
That's what I was doing when I discovered the IRQ16 misbehaviour. After that it was a matter of finding the cause. As it happens, it went away again by itself. Makes me wonder how much more life to expect from this motherboard. --->8 > I used to have a howto bookmarked that gave more detail then the current > step- by-step examples. Unfortunately, that whole website disappeared about > 5 or 6 years ago. > > Maybe check the old thread where Dale started with LVM. There is a lot of > detail in there. Hmm...don't remember that. I'll see if I can find it - thanks. --->8 > > As far as I know, the only thing that /requires/ an initramfs is having a > > separate /usr. And I can't help you with GPT or UEFI - sorry. > > A seperate " /usr " or " / " on LVM. Oh yes, of course. I missed that one. I shouldn't have, because that's the reason my / is on RAID-1 but not LVM - to avoid needing an initramfs. -- Regards Peter
