On 16 May 2014 7:46:29 PM AEST, "Stefan G. Weichinger" <li...@xunil.at> wrote: >Am 15.05.2014 20:33, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger ><li...@xunil.at> wrote: >>> Am 15.05.2014 20:05, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >>> >>>> With -H, you don't get the kernel cmdline, and therefore your >kernel >>>> cannot load your LVM volumes since it doesn't know their... names? >I >>>> don't knot the terminology. >>>> >>>> In any case, you need to set --hostonly-cmdline (or >>>> hostonly_cmdline="yes" in the config file), *besides* -H. >>> >>> ok ... I pulled your changes (kerninst) from github ... on the web I >see >>> it, but it doesn't get into my copy here ... strange. >>> >>> As I don't need it right now, I will (a) wait or (b) edit manually. >>> >>> No problem. >> >> I actually *removed* -H from kerninst. That should be configured in >> the user's dracut.conf; now I have: >> >> hostonly="yes" >> hostonly_cmdline="yes" >> >> in my dracut.conf. > >Yes, I understood ... thanks. > >Aside from that a more general question: > >Does it it any way help to have a *small* (= as small as possible) >initramfs? > >Maybe on embedded systems but on the big multi-GB-ram-machines we use >it >doesn't make much difference, right? > >I ask because in all my reorganizing furor I also thought that now with >btrfs only I could get rid of "lvm mdraid" as dracut-modules. I can try >... ;-) (don't call me "ricer")
If you have a multi-disk btrfs, I think you need to add the btrfs dracut module. At least that's how I remember it, but its been a while & my memory could be failing me, or it could well have changed since then. Bruce -- :B
