yes, i installed busybox into the initramfs i created my self. because i see the initramfs generated by genkernel uses it.
i am using LVM, so i have to use a initramfs. are you suggesting that i should install all the GNU utilities into the initramfs? i think that would create a very large initramfs file. On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday 04 December 2009 17:25:21 Alex Schuster wrote: >> Xi Shen writes: >> > when i boot my system, at the step "Wiping /tmp", it pops up an error >> > message saying that the find command do not support the '-uid' option. >> > in the error message, i also see the busybox mark. it looks like it >> > used the wrong find command. >> >> Did you emerge busybox with the make-symlinks USE flag? When your original >> find is replaced by a link to busybox. > > That's unlikely. His box will likely not boot if he did that. If it does boot > it certainly will not emerge anything. Portage relies on features that are > present in GNU utilities and are not there in busybox > >> Don't know what to do exactly, most probably many other commands will also >> not work as expected, I guess you need to re-emerge all stuff that >> provides them, like findutils. There was a thread recently, look for "/bin >> contains busybox executables after installing busybox-1.13.2" by Amit Dor- >> Shifer on 2009-11-25. > > He likely installed busybox into the initramfs instead of GNU utilities. > > initramfs on gentoo is not a technique I recommend. It is designed for a > general use-case not present in Gentoo[1], and a very few specific cases where > an initramfs-less setup cannot work[2[ > > [1] Binary distros cannot know upfront what the end-user has hardware-wise, so > cannot build drivers for everything imaginable into the kernel. An initramfs > is an elegant solution, but one which is overkill for Gentoo (the initial > statement is usually false) > > [2] Some specific boot scenarios require an initramfs even on Gentoo - booting > off raided volumes where drivers are needed at boot time, encrypted / volumes, > / on an LVM volume and a few others > > In almost all other cases it is simpler and easier to dispense with the > initramfs and build two drivers into the kernel. After all, the user in all > probability knows exactly what hardware they have > > > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/
