Bug#335230: [#335230] How to actually support EVMS in an initrd

2005-10-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 09:47:12PM +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: > Alle 21:18, sabato 22 ottobre 2005, Steinar H. Gunderson ha scritto: > > > EVMS support in yaird should not be difficult to add for someone who > > already knows yaird. Basically, what you need to do is: > > We need a perl hacker.

Bug#335230: [#335230] How to actually support EVMS in an initrd

2005-10-22 Thread Erik van Konijnenburg
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 09:54:54PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 09:47:12PM +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: > >> - Make sure /dev/ is writable, and mkdir /dev/evms. > > Translate this in perl plz :-) > > Well, the "make sure" part depends on how yaird works. You may hav

Bug#335230: [#335230] How to actually support EVMS in an initrd

2005-10-22 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 09:47:12PM +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: >> - Make sure /dev/ is writable, and mkdir /dev/evms. > Translate this in perl plz :-) Well, the "make sure" part depends on how yaird works. You may have to mount a tmpfs over /dev/evms if the initrd is read-only. (This is during _b

Bug#335230: [#335230] How to actually support EVMS in an initrd

2005-10-22 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 21:18, sabato 22 ottobre 2005, Steinar H. Gunderson ha scritto: > EVMS support in yaird should not be difficult to add for someone who > already knows yaird. Basically, what you need to do is: We need a perl hacker. Code speaking, I'm not a perl hacker, too bad, but I understood that, looki

Bug#335230: [#335230] How to actually support EVMS in an initrd

2005-10-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 09:18:44PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > Just thought I'd take my EVMS maintainer hat on and try to add some > constructive input to this: > > EVMS support in yaird should not be difficult to add for someone who already > knows yaird. Basically, what you need to do i

Bug#335230: [#335230] How to actually support EVMS in an initrd

2005-10-22 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
Just thought I'd take my EVMS maintainer hat on and try to add some constructive input to this: EVMS support in yaird should not be difficult to add for someone who already knows yaird. Basically, what you need to do is: - If root= is not /dev/evms/*, _do not do anything in the initrd_. If you