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Maxie
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 Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 7:58 am Post subject: EOL for bliss-initramfs |
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I installed my system using this guide.
Ever since I use bliss-initramfs when updating the kernel.
I see that now it's masked and scheduled to be removed. I suppose there are some problems with it that I failed to notice and that I would best stop using it.
But then - I don't really know what did it do to generate the initramfs. I don't know if other tools that generate initramfs are fully equivalent, should I use them in some specific way to make them work for me etc.
Could anyone please give me some pointers on generating intiramfs for root on nvme/zfs?
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charles17
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| Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 12:47 pm Post subject: Re: EOL for bliss-initramfs |
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| Maxie wrote: | I installed my system using this guide.
Ever since I use bliss-initramfs when updating the kernel.
I see that now it's masked and scheduled to be removed. I suppose there are some problems with it that I failed to notice and that I would best stop using it.
But then - I don't really know what did it do to generate the initramfs. I don't know if other tools that generate initramfs are fully equivalent, should I use them in some specific way to make them work for me etc.
Could anyone please give me some pointers on generating intiramfs for root on nvme/zfs? |
Why do you think you need an initramfs? |
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John R. Graham
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| Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 3:30 pm Post subject: Re: EOL for bliss-initramfs |
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| charles17 wrote: | | Why do you think you need an initramfs? |
The ZFS article on the Gentoo Wiki has this to say:To boot from a ZFS volume as the root filesystem requires a ZFS capable kernel and an initial ramdisk (initramfs) which has the ZFS userspace utilities. @Maxie, there are instructions in that article on how to use genkernel to make a ZFS-capable initramfs.
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bunder
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dracut should work fine these days as well 
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Maxie
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| Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks. I suppose there's nothing NVMe specific in that intitramfs, right? |
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xanderal
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| Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Maxie wrote: | | Thanks. I suppose there's nothing NVMe specific in that intitramfs, right? |
Not to my knowledge. I don't use zfs but have a nvme. I generate my initramfs with | Code: | | genkernel --luks --lvm --install --no-mountboot --firmware initramfs |
Seems like you only need to add zfs support. |
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Maxie
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I'm just going through it and I encountered issues.
genkernel warned me that
"No hostid embedded into initramfs. You MUST set 'spl_hostid=<hostid>' parameter to provide hostid for ZFS!".
OK. So I did a quick search of what hostid is, used hostid binary to read my hostid "it's 00000000", put that it /etc/hostid and generated initramfs again.
Then rebooted.
I'm not sure exactly what I mounted but the system would reject my user password as well as the root on (which I don't recall ever changing).
So I went back to check it out only to see that my system wouldn't boot - because hostid changed (to "30303030" or something like that) and zpool would reject import.
I fixed that with the help of rescue CD. So...I have 2 problems:
* I can't log in. So far I think I can figure it out myself
* I don't know how to manage hostid and what to do to make it 00000000 as it is now.
I would be grateful for any help with that... |
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Maxie
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| Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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I tried creating empty /etc/hostid and it just did what I needed - used 00000000.
Once I did it I could actually log in, so the second problem fixed itself and I'm finally with a fresh kernel without bliss-initramfs.
Thanks again to everyone who helped.  |
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