Bug 87673 – genkernel usability: Add dmraid option passing

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Matze Braun 2005-04-02 07:06:53 UTC]

I constantly produce broken initrds because I forget to specify the --udev parameter. It would be very conentient to add an option in the config file for this, so that the setting is still there when you compile a new kernel.

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Eric Edgar (RETIRED) 2005-04-04 06:30:21 UTC]

An undocumented feature of genkernel lets you put
CMD_UDEV="1"
CMD_DMRAID="1"
CMD_LVM2="1"
in /etc/genkernel.conf.  These settings are not supported and may change in the future as they are not an official setting for genkernel.conf.  A different method of turning these on officially has not been worked out yet.

udev, dmraid, and lvm2 would be added with these settings .. 0 is off .. or leave them out.

[Comment 2 Eugene Gluzberg 2005-04-22 19:50:29 UTC]

Also we need options for dmraid activation. for instance i need to run "dmraid -ay -f sil" because i have 2 raid controllers on the mobo. I had to modify my linuxrc in order to fix it.

[Comment 3 Eric Edgar (RETIRED) 2005-06-21 21:26:54 UTC]

for dmraid command lines do you want to supply the whole list of options or 
should "-a y" be assumed and the rest you add on the kernel command line?

[Comment 4 Eric Edgar (RETIRED) 2005-06-22 08:23:26 UTC]

to use this set dodmraid= on the cmdline
sets DMRAID_OPTS internally for the linuxrc

this runs /sbin/dmraid -ay ${DMRAID_OPTS}

[Comment 5 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) 2005-06-22 09:45:17 UTC]

Fixed in 3.2.0_pre10, thanks!