Re: Tyan S2877 no network? like to end up with something close to sarge...
On Fri, 5 May 2006 08:48:43 -0400
lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:19:56PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> > yaird is far easier to backport, and pulls in barely any
> > dependencies.
>
> It also (last I tried it) does not support:
> passing root= arguments, it hard codes the root location. This makes
> fixing things very difficult.
> Does not support md raid, nor lvm.
>
> In all it is almost useless in that state. I tried that first since
> yes it was much easier to backport, but it simply was unusuable for
> anything but the most primitive of systems.
From man yaird:
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The following configurations are supported: SATA, SCSI, IDE, USB
storage, DASD, LVM2, mdadm, cryptsetup, cryptsetup-luks, USB
keyboards, NFS root, EVMS.
Not yet supported: swsusp, firewire, loopback, loopaes, dmraid.
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Works great for me with root on LVM2 (on an i386 box, admittedly).
--Adam
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