Bug#335230: [#335230] How to actually support EVMS in an initrd

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 09:18:44PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> Just thought I'd take my EVMS maintainer hat on and try to add some
> constructive input to this:
> 
> EVMS support in yaird should not be difficult to add for someone who already
> knows yaird. Basically, what you need to do is:
> 
>  - If root= is not /dev/evms/*, _do not do anything in the initrd_. If you
>    do, you _will_ break root mounting for anybody _not_ using root on EVMS.
>  - Make sure /dev/ is writable, and mkdir /dev/evms.
>  - modprobe -q dm-mapper to load the devmapper module. You might also want
>    to modprobe raid0/raid5 if the system in question needs that for /.
>  - Run /sbin/evms_activate (from the “evms” package). It will do partition
>    discovery and mknod the appropriate devices in /dev/evms.
> 
> That's it :-)
> 
> /* Steinar */

Thanks for providing this info, let's hope it will help bring support of evms
to yaird soonishly :)

Friendly,

Sven Luther