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Communist! If you can't even see the computer screen through the thick haze of incense then you shouldn't post anything at all. Anyway, back on track, I'm off to yoga.
Oh, I forgot to mention that I am using an initrd with LUKS and LVM support.
Quote:
Originally Posted by TommyC7
Has anyone had any success with a custom generated initrd (regardless of custom or stock kernel)?
I'm glad I kept the old initrd's that I created since they come with the old udev stuff.
However, I am having having some time delay issues with an initrd generated with the eudev stuff.
First, a message (within in the initrd) like this appears:
Code:
udevd[173]: IMPORT{builtin}: 'usb-db' unknown /lib/udev/rules.d/75-tty-description.rules:7
udevd[173]: IMPORT{builtin}: 'pci-db' unknown /lib/udev/rules.d/75-tty-description.rules:11
udevd[173]:invalid key/value pair in file /lib/udev/rules.d/95-keymap.rules on line 97, starting at character 143 ('#')
udevd[173]:hint: comments can only start at beginning of line
Then, once I'm past the initrd:
Code:
[drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
[drm] Enabling RC6 states: RC6 on, RC6p on, RC6pp off
About a minute goes by according to the kernel time info. (58 seconds on my last reboot) before I then see:
Has anyone had any success with a custom generated initrd (regardless of custom or stock kernel)?
I'm glad I kept the old initrd's that I created since they come with the old udev stuff.
However, I am having having some time delay issues with an initrd generated with the eudev stuff.
Hi TommyC7. I do not have any problems with the new initrd generated with eudev: they both work flawlessly. I must say that I didn't do anything unusual, only having added the ext3 module for the root filesystem.
Hi TommyC7. I do not have any problems with the new initrd generated with eudev: they both work flawlessly. I must say that I didn't do anything unusual, only having added the ext3 module for the root filesystem.
First, a message (within in the initrd) like this appears:
Code:
udevd[173]: IMPORT{builtin}: 'usb-db' unknown /lib/udev/rules.d/75-tty-description.rules:7
udevd[173]: IMPORT{builtin}: 'pci-db' unknown /lib/udev/rules.d/75-tty-description.rules:11
udevd[173]:invalid key/value pair in file /lib/udev/rules.d/95-keymap.rules on line 97, starting at character 143 ('#')
udevd[173]:hint: comments can only start at beginning of line
There's no longer a 75-tty-description.rules, so you've got at least one (and maybe more) stale rules files on your machine.
There's no longer a 75-tty-description.rules, so you've got at least one (and maybe more) stale rules files on your machine.
Hi Mr. Volkerding,
I've cleared the initrd tree to remove those messages.
I just want to clarify that I can boot into the machine, it's just that some of the things take quite a long time to initialize or finish.
Notably:
Quote:
[drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
[drm] Enabling RC6 states: RC6 on, RC6p on, RC6pp off
^ That is the last message I read before I wait 58 seconds so that the rest of the machine will initialize.
Everything initializes slower than it previously did with udev so I feel like it may have to do with the kernel but I'm not sure of any methods to confirm this.
Did a clean install of Slackware-current in the last hour on my old Acer Aspire One netbook(2009), applied today's updates to it, and all is well. It is amazing that this unit can run new software.
I just finished a fresh installation of -current on my main laptop using Alien's iso. I wanted to clean up my system a bit and also switch to an encrypted disk. Everything seems to be tip top. I don't see any errors in /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages. All packages installed without a hitch. Just have to reinstall all my steam and wine games, then untar my LXCs. Must... get... back to.. making... new... SlackBuilds!
Thanks to Mr. Volkerding and the other members of the Slackware team for such a great operating system!
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