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This is exactly the kind of feedback we need! +</I>>><i> +</I>>>><i> I found a couple problems: +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> - dracut inists on loading nouveau driver. With mknitrd, just booting with nokmsboot +</I>>>><i> works. Booting with a dracut generated initrd ignores that. I think it is plymouth +</I>>>><i> that forces it, even if I added 'blacklist nouveau' in a .conf file in modprobe.d: +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> dracut -f: +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> I'll include it but if it's blacklisted, it shouldn't ultimately be used +</I>>><i> in the ramfs even if it's included. That said, it's clearly inefficient +</I>>><i> to include it if it is blacklisted so we should try and fix that. Anssi, +</I>>><i> could this be your code to detect the h/w that causes it to bypass any +</I>>><i> blacklist checks (not sure if there are actually any blacklist checks +</I>>><i> when building the initrd... not relaly looked at it much)ç +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Clue... +</I>><i> Let's state all my findings. As 'nokmsboot' was ignored, i remembered CentOS +</I>><i> where the nvidia installer achived the same blacklisting nouveau. +</I>><i> I added the blacklist in /etc/modprobe.d/display-driver.conf, which is a +</I>><i> symlink to /etc/nvidia-current/modprobe.conf. It didn't work. +</I>><i> After the fiasco with symlinks in systemd, i tried creting a new file. +</I>><i> And it worked. So there is something strange with symlinked files... +</I> +That's interesting... The code in question: + +./modules.d/90kernel-modules/module-setup.sh: for i in $(find +/etc/modprobe.d/ -type f -name '*.conf'); do + +So it only finds files. + +If I change "find" to "find -L" this should fix up this problem (when +the files are installed, links are dereferenced so that won't be a problem). + +This should avoid any such similar problems. + +Also I believe it's pointless to go into any subfolders here, so adding +also a -maxdepth 1 should cut down on unnecessary includes. + +>>><i> - initrd from dracut fails to detect one of my drives, and booting stops: +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> OK, this is more interesting. +</I>... +><i> +</I>><i> I found the problem: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> lsscsi: +</I>><i> werewolf:~/dr# cat lsscsi* +</I>><i> [0:0:0:0] disk ATA ST3250310AS 3.AA /dev/sda +</I>><i> [1:0:0:0] disk ATA WDC WD3200AVJS-6 12.0 /dev/sdb +</I>><i> [2:0:0:0] disk ATA ST3320620AS 3.AA /dev/sdc +</I>><i> [3:0:0:0] disk ATA ST3500418AS CC38 /dev/sdh +</I>><i> [5:0:0:0] cd/dvd HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH22NS50 TN01 /dev/sr0 +</I>><i> [6:0:0:0] disk Generic USB CF Reader 0.00 /dev/sdd +</I>><i> [6:0:0:1] disk Generic USB SD Reader 0.00 /dev/sde +</I>><i> [6:0:0:2] disk Generic USB MS Reader 0.00 /dev/sdf +</I>><i> [6:0:0:3] disk Generic USB SM Reader 0.00 /dev/sdg +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The disk has been renamed as sdh +</I> +><i> I changed the mounting points from devices to labels and all worked fine. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> This will probably not be an issue with standard install, using UUIDs, +</I>><i> but the real problem is that drive name asssignment is even more random +</I>><i> (well, interlaced ;)). +</I> +Hmm, interesting. Not quite sure why it's doing that but as it's using +udev rather than any manual driver loading, it's likely a more +predicable system overall in the long term. + + +Col + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="010540.html">[Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="010541.html">[Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#10542">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#10542">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#10542">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#10542">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |