Chris Sakalis said the following at 06/21/2012 01:57 PM :
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:39 PM, D. R. Evans <doc.evans@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry for the stupid question, but do you rebuild the init ram image after changing your mkinitcpio.conf ?
I don't understand the question, so it's not at all stupid. I'm just following the instructions on the wiki. The wiki says to edit mkinitcpio.conf immediately prior to the reboot, so that's what I'm doing. It doesn't mention any need to rebuild an image (nor how to do it).
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On the wiki, it does not mention anything about rebuilding your initramfs, because mkinitcpio is called automatically by the installer after the configuration phase. However:
mkinitcpio.conf is read by the mkinitcpio utility in order to create the initial ramdisk image. Essentially, it's a bunch of stuff needed by the kernel before the root filesystem is made available. After you edit the mkinitcpio.conf file, you HAVE to rebuild[1] your initramfs image, in order for the changes to actually take effect. If you just edit the file and then reboot, nothing is done.
My turn to ask a stupid question, because I'm sure your explanation makes perfect sense to someone who understands this stuff, but I don't: my previous experience with installing Linux on RAID was with Ubuntu, for which I didn't need to mess with any of this. Are you saying that between these instructions: --- Add the dm_mod module to the MODULES list in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf. Add the mdadm_udev and lvm2 hooks to the HOOKS list in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf after udev. --- and the next step: --- Once it is complete you can safely reboot your machine: # reboot --- there should be some additional step(s)?
[1] - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio#Image_creation_and_activatio...
That seems to say that I should run mkinitcpio, but that step isn't mentioned, even adumbratively, anywhere on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Software_RAID_and_LVM#RAID_installation Hopelessly, completely, lost and beginning to despair.... Doc -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR