On 15 September 2016 01:01:02 CEST, Rich Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: >If you're using an initramfs the kernel will not mount anything at any >time unless some process with sufficient capabilities asks it to. The >initramfs typically mounts the root partition, and then execs init. >Anything beyond that is done by init or whatever processes it spawns, >such as openrc. Offhand I don't remember if modern initramfs >solutions mount root as read-write; openrc will probably check for >this in any case and remount if it is read-only (I could be wrong on >that). > >If something other than root isn't mounted correctly, the fault >probably lies in your fstab or openrc, or you're missing a necessary >driver/etc.
Thanks for correcting me, i mixed it up a bit. But after looking in into the init-system I found the problem (or at least I fixed it). Since the init did not work I tried: # openrc sysinit and got some errors I can not fully recall. So I took a look at dmesg (needed to use the command, since the file did not get created) I saw: the problem was a segfault in libselinux. I switched to the live-cd mounted all partitions chrooted in it, then I reemerged the whole system (emerge -ae world), because I wanted to be sure to go safe. After this I double checked the kernel configuration again and rebuild it as well (the same with the initramfs). This solved the problem, at least for me (finally I have the right keyboardlayout loaded on boot ;-). Thanks for all your help pointing me in the right direction (especially with /proc/mounts which cleared the way). I learned quite a lot and got my system running the I want. Holger Wünsche
