Re: [arch-general] Removing initrd (For use with GRUB2, LVM, GPT)

2012-01-11 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
> I was reading this and it reminded me of what you said Anthony: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove > > -- > Jonathan Vasquez I'm definitely going to be moving back to my old drive (with the old partition style /dev/sda1 EF02, /dev/sda2 ALL LVM (Boot, /, , swap, home)) and using ini

Re: [arch-general] install problem

2012-01-11 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:54:19 + schrieb Peter Nikolic : > Well havin had a big sucsess on the laptop so i thoight i would at > last try this box but alsa the install cd boots but is unable to > find my sata disk now i know the disk is ok else i would not be > typing this from suse . hardwa

Re: [arch-general] Removing initrd (For use with GRUB2, LVM, GPT)

2012-01-11 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:36 AM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Jonathan Vasquez >> wrote: >>> >>> Simplicity and minimalism would be what motivates me the most. If I >>> don't need an initramfs to get my

Re: [arch-general] Removing initrd (For use with GRUB2, LVM, GPT)

2012-01-11 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:36 AM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Jonathan Vasquez > wrote: >> >> Simplicity and minimalism would be what motivates me the most. If I >> don't need an initramfs to get my system boot up, why have one? I know >> the benefits that initra

Re: [arch-general] Removing initrd (For use with GRUB2, LVM, GPT)

2012-01-11 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: > > Simplicity and minimalism would be what motivates me the most. If I > don't need an initramfs to get my system boot up, why have one? I know > the benefits that initramfs provides, but I don't need any of them. > All I need my computer

Re: [arch-general] install problem

2012-01-11 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Peter Nikolic wrote: > > Hi folks > > Well havin had a big sucsess on the laptop  so i thoight i would at last try > this box   but  alsa  the install cd boots but is unable to find my sata disk > now i know the disk is ok else i would not be typing this from suse

Re: [arch-general] Removing initrd (For use with GRUB2, LVM, GPT)

2012-01-11 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:19 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Jonathan Vasquez > wrote: >> Btw, for the first picture, it says that /usr is not mounted. I >> believe that is because my /usr in in /dev/mapper/arch-usr and that >> doesn't get mounted until later in

Re: [arch-general] Removing initrd (For use with GRUB2, LVM, GPT)

2012-01-11 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: > Btw, for the first picture, it says that /usr is not mounted. I > believe that is because my /usr in in /dev/mapper/arch-usr and that > doesn't get mounted until later in the boot process. > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Jonathan Vasq

Re: [arch-general] Removing initrd (For use with GRUB2, LVM, GPT)

2012-01-11 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: > Is there any way to choose when to load specific stuff? In gentoo you > could do this by selecting a runlevel by name (sysinit, boot, default, > shutdown). I don't know if this is possible in Arch. Not sure if that's what you're asking ab

Re: [arch-general] Removing initrd (For use with GRUB2, LVM, GPT)

2012-01-11 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: > Btw, for the first picture, it says that /usr is not mounted. I > believe that is because my /usr in in /dev/mapper/arch-usr and that > doesn't get mounted until later in the boot process. > > -- > Jonathan Vasquez Is there any way to ch

Re: [arch-general] install problem

2012-01-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
I got a sata disk in a tower too recently. Sometimes after booting it's necessary for me to hit the leftmost sata disk button then hit the computer reset button to bring up a sata partition available for other software to find and then use. On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Peter Nikolic wrote: > On Wedne

Re: [arch-general] Removing initrd (For use with GRUB2, LVM, GPT)

2012-01-11 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Jonathan Vasquez > wrote: >> but should the initramfs be integrated enough into >> the system where the output messages don't get displayed?) > > I think the initscripts produce what you see while booting

Re: [arch-general] Removing initrd (For use with GRUB2, LVM, GPT)

2012-01-11 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
Btw, for the first picture, it says that /usr is not mounted. I believe that is because my /usr in in /dev/mapper/arch-usr and that doesn't get mounted until later in the boot process. -- Jonathan Vasquez

Re: [arch-general] Removing initrd (For use with GRUB2, LVM, GPT)

2012-01-11 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: > but should the initramfs be integrated enough into > the system where the output messages don't get displayed?) I think the initscripts produce what you see while booting and shutting down. Is there anything written to your /var/log/boot

Re: [arch-general] Removing initrd (For use with GRUB2, LVM, GPT)

2012-01-11 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
>> Btw, there are nowadays many more reasons why using an initramfs is >> preferred. By depending on initramfs, you can simplify system >> initialization greatly. In the future, it is likely that booting a Linux >> system without initramfs will only be possible in very simple cases - at >> least th

Re: [arch-general] setting the time

2012-01-11 Thread Peter Lewis
On Sunday 08 Jan 2012 18:27:21 Tom Gundersen wrote: > No particular group membership necessary. I'm not really sure exactly > what packages need to be installed (I just install all the kde > packages and hope for the best). > > This should "just work(TM)". If it does not there could be a > polkit/

Re: [arch-general] install problem

2012-01-11 Thread Don Juan
On 01/11/2012 01:06 PM, Peter Nikolic wrote: On Wednesday 11 January 2012 20:59:07 Don Juan wrote: On 01/11/2012 12:54 PM, Peter Nikolic wrote: Hi folks Well havin had a big sucsess on the laptop so i thoight i would at last try this box but alsa the install cd boots but is unable to find

Re: [arch-general] install problem

2012-01-11 Thread Peter Nikolic
On Wednesday 11 January 2012 20:59:07 Don Juan wrote: > On 01/11/2012 12:54 PM, Peter Nikolic wrote: > > Hi folks > > > > Well havin had a big sucsess on the laptop so i thoight i would at last > > try this box but alsa the install cd boots but is unable to find my > > sata disk now i know th

Re: [arch-general] install problem

2012-01-11 Thread Don Juan
On 01/11/2012 12:54 PM, Peter Nikolic wrote: Hi folks Well havin had a big sucsess on the laptop so i thoight i would at last try this box but alsa the install cd boots but is unable to find my sata disk now i know the disk is ok else i would not be typing this from suse . hardware info :

[arch-general] install problem

2012-01-11 Thread Peter Nikolic
Hi folks Well havin had a big sucsess on the laptop so i thoight i would at last try this box but alsa the install cd boots but is unable to find my sata disk now i know the disk is ok else i would not be typing this from suse . hardware info : AMD Quad Phenome cpu Nvidia GT220 1 Gb M

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] removing /bin/arch

2012-01-11 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
On 01/11/2012 03:46 PM, Ionut Biru wrote: On 01/11/2012 08:07 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: Hi guys, /bin/arch was deprecated from util-linux back in 2007, in favor of `uname -m`. Any objections to not shipping it any longer? Cheers, Tom Why don't we let upstream decide that? IMO if is installe