Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-24 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Dale wrote: > Michael Mol wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Dale wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >>> I might also add, genkernel is stable and has been for ages.  It's been >>> a while since I tried it but the last time I did, it failed miserably. >>> It 'claime

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-24 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Dale wrote: > > [snip] > >> I might also add, genkernel is stable and has been for ages. It's been >> a while since I tried it but the last time I did, it failed miserably. >> It 'claimed' everything worked fine but when I booted, it failed

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-24 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Dale wrote: [snip] > I might also add, genkernel is stable and has been for ages.  It's been > a while since I tried it but the last time I did, it failed miserably. > It 'claimed' everything worked fine but when I booted, it failed.  I got > the old blinky keyb

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-24 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Dale wrote: >>> Michael Mol wrote: >>> To the OP.  I would use dracut.  I ran into trouble but I found out >>> later that a earlier attempt a

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-24 Thread Michael Scherer
Message - From: "Dale" To: Sent: Tuesday, 24 April, 2012 01:43 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs Michael Scherer wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:01:09 -0500 Dale wrote: Michael Scherer wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:26:57 -0500 Dale wrote: Michael

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-24 Thread Dale
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Dale wrote: >>> Michael Mol wrote: >>> To the OP. I would use dracut. I ran into trouble but I found out >>> later that a earlier attempt at a init thingy was causing the dra

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-24 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Dale wrote: >> Michael Mol wrote: >> To the OP.  I would use dracut.  I ran into trouble but I found out >> later that a earlier attempt at a init thingy was causing the dracut >> init thingy to mess up.  I

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-24 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Dale wrote: > Michael Mol wrote: > To the OP.  I would use dracut.  I ran into trouble but I found out > later that a earlier attempt at a init thingy was causing the dracut > init thingy to mess up.  I strongly suspect that if I had known to get > rid of the p

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-24 Thread Kenny Cheng
Hi, According to the genkernel.log, it would be the problem that someone posted on forum with solution. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-858613-highlight-.html Just a word, I have been using genkernel for years and satisfy with it. -- Regards, Kenny Cheng On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:52 AM, M

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-23 Thread Dale
Michael Scherer wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:01:09 -0500 > Dale wrote: > >> Michael Scherer wrote: >>> On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:26:57 -0500 >>> Dale wrote: >>> Michael Mol wrote: > So, my habit is to have /usr sit on top of LVM on top of mdraid. I > really don't want to get into th

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Scherer
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:01:09 -0500 Dale wrote: > Michael Scherer wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:26:57 -0500 > > Dale wrote: > > > >> Michael Mol wrote: > >>> So, my habit is to have /usr sit on top of LVM on top of mdraid. I > >>> really don't want to get into the business of manually managi

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:52:41 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > So, my habit is to have /usr sit on top of LVM on top of mdraid. I > really don't want to get into the business of manually managing my own > initramfs, The kernel make process can create the initramfs for you, although you have to give it

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-23 Thread Dale
Michael Scherer wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:26:57 -0500 > Dale wrote: > >> Michael Mol wrote: >>> So, my habit is to have /usr sit on top of LVM on top of mdraid. I >>> really don't want to get into the business of manually managing my >>> own initramfs, and udev >= 181 will eventually hit st

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Scherer
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:26:57 -0500 Dale wrote: > Michael Mol wrote: > > So, my habit is to have /usr sit on top of LVM on top of mdraid. I > > really don't want to get into the business of manually managing my > > own initramfs, and udev >= 181 will eventually hit stable. I want my > > systems re

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-23 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23.04.2012 19:52, Michael Mol wrote: > So, my habit is to have /usr sit on top of LVM on top of mdraid. I > really don't want to get into the business of manually managing my > own initramfs, and udev >= 181 will eventually hit stable. I want > my

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-23 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: > So, my habit is to have /usr sit on top of LVM on top of mdraid. I > really don't want to get into the business of manually managing my own > initramfs, and udev >= 181 will eventually hit stable. I want my > systems ready before that. > > Now, having looked at the pertinent d