Re: suggested initramfs-tools patches

2009-02-17 Thread Struan Bartlett
on 17/02/09 16:39 maximilian attems wrote : On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 04:06:37PM +, Struan Bartlett wrote: there is an open bug #378332 beware the critics of that patch and that /dev/VG/LV is *just* a symlink. please post your patch as followup there. Ok will try that

Bug#378332: Update-initramfs: suggested patch to make scripts/local-top/lvm understand "/dev/vg/lv"

2009-02-17 Thread Struan Bartlett
The following patch is employed at our company to enable the use of /dev/vg/lv syntax in the root argument on the kernel command line. It simply adds an extra case check, for the alternative syntax. I realise that /dev/vg/lv is a symlink and not the 'real' root device node. But given the syml

Re: suggested initramfs-tools patches

2009-02-17 Thread Struan Bartlett
Thanks for your feedback. Some followup: on 17/02/09 02:48 maximilian attems wrote : On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 08:45:30PM +, Struan Bartlett wrote: I'm not sure whether this is the right place to write to. I've made a few patches to this package that my company is using in produ

suggested initramfs-tools patches

2009-02-16 Thread Struan Bartlett
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