Is the procedure described in INSTALL currently valid?

[tilt12345678]

is the procedure described in INSTALL actual? it fails for me with the first make command described make -C libvdev make: *\ No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. i noted that a simple "make" apparently builds the software correctly up to squashing the hwdb. before i proceed to do a test install i would appreciate confirmation that the remainder of the INSTALL is correct.

[jcnelson]

Hi tilt,

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. The INSTALL.md file was outdated; I just pushed the latest instructions. There is no longer a libvdev build target.

Thanks, Jude

[jcnelson]

Closing this issue for lack of activity. Please re-open if there are still problems with the installation instructions :)

[tilt12345678]

Sorry about the bother, but here's a couple of errors in INSTALL.md that i currently am encountering:

• Typo in line 21: sudo make -C libudev-compat installed
• Typo in line 31ff: missing -C example option to "make" or advice to perform cd example before 'make initramfs'
• When starting from a genuine git checkout, the described procedure leads to errors such as "/etc/vdev not found" or "you must install vdev first" in Step 2: Generate an Initramfs

On a sidenote, i think that "make" should make vdev and "make install" install it. ;)

[jcnelson]

Hi @tilt12345678,

What do you think of the ones here? 219df04730c767c86d53e5aa5e8eef3b20413e1e

[tilt12345678]

That was fast! :-D

Following the INSTALL step-by-step, one issue remains: ETCDIR still seems to be pointing to a wrong location (after going through Step 1 entirely, /etc/vdev does not exist). In result, at Step 2: Generate an Initramfs, i am getting this error:

root@vdevtest:~/vdev# make -C example initramfs
make: Entering directory `/root/vdev/example'
/bin/sh ./make-initramfs.sh
You must install vdev's /etc files first
Generating initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64
cp: cannot stat `/etc/vdev/*': No such file or directory
E: ../build/etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/vdev failed with return 1.
make: Leaving directory `/root/vdev/example'

[jcnelson]

Thanks for sanity-checking the instructions!

I forgot to say that PREFIX= must be included when building and installing the example target. How about this? 01c4720015e7ef5a73a51306915334b74311a73f

[tilt12345678]

With performing the example installation as instructed, at Step 2 i got this warning instead:

root@vdevtest:~/vdev# make -C example initramfs
make: Entering directory `/root/vdev/example'
/bin/sh ./make-initramfs.sh
Generating initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64
WARN: could not find hardware database in /lib/vdev/hwdb.  Some hardware metadata may not be generated.
Generated initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64

I resolved this by performing

make -C hwdb PREFIX=/ install

However, when booting with the created initrd, i got this:

I know i deviated from the installation instructions there, but i wasn't sure what to do about the warning.

[jcnelson]

Thank you for trying the new install instructions!

The problem you encountered is here:

make -C example initramfs

This needs to be make -C example initramfs PREFIX=.

It is imperative that you set the PREFIX variable to an empty string for each build and install target, since you're installing vdev to your root partition. If you don't do this, vdev binaries and configuration will get installed under /usr/local (as required by the GNU Makefile conventions), and the initramfs generator script will not find them (in fact, the initramfs image shouldn't even have a /usr directory).

Also, just to confirm--do you have initramfs-tools installed? I ask because the mount_top and mount_premount scripts appear to be missing.

[tilt12345678]

thank you, it works like that. vdevd is now starting from the initramfs. note i am using a modified toplevel Makefile as shown in f3b144270d1c8fde2a2407bbf92fab2b3862d9ab