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If you are using a different kernel +</I>><i> > version then adjust the two commands accordingly to pick the right version. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > Then just reboot. Hopefully all will go well and you won't notice much +</I>><i> > difference :) +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> I'm sad to be the first to give bad news about that but: +</I>><i> when I rebooted it didn't work. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Here is the partitionning scheme I have: +</I>><i> /boot 256 MB +</I>><i> raid 0: 2x 60 GB +</I>><i> LVM on raid +</I>><i> / on logical volume, btrfs filesystem +</I>><i> +</I>><i> When I boot with the dracut initrd I don't get my / mounted. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Instead, after a while plymouth disappears and I get the following +</I>><i> message, repeated all over the screen: +</I>><i> modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting btrfs +</I>><i> (/lib/modules/3.1.0-desktop-0.rc10.1.mga2/kernel/fs/btrfs/btrfs.ko.gz) +</I>><i> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> When I run dmesg|less: +</I>><i> Everything is fine until my logical volumes are active and then I get +</I>><i> this message repeated over and over: +</I>><i> dracut: Checking, if btrfs device complete +</I>><i> +</I>><i> and in the middle of this flood I get this: +</I>><i> scanning for all btrfs devices +</I>><i> failed to open /dev/btrfs_control skipping device registration +</I>><i> scanning devices md0 for LVM volume groups +</I>><i> Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while +</I>><i> Found volume group "kaze" using metadata type lvm2 +</I>><i> Partial mode. Incomplete volumes will be processed +</I>><i> 5 logical volume(s) in volume group "kaze" now active +</I>><i> Autoassembling MDRaid. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> and in the end I get +</I>><i> dracut: Warning: no root device "block:/dev/kaze/cauldron" found +</I>><i> +</I>><i> So, to me the problem is neither raid nor LVM but btrfs +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Any idea on how to solve this issue ? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> In case it can be useful, here is the result of +</I>><i> lsinitrd-dracut /boot/initrd.img : <A HREF="http://pastebin.com/Xe5Jhj38">http://pastebin.com/Xe5Jhj38</A> +</I>[...] + +I just opened a bug against dracut for this btrfs issue: +<A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3214">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3214</A> + +I still got the problem with the new dracut and kernel. + +Regards, +-- +Rémy CLOUARD +() ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail +/\ www.asciiribbon.og - against proprietary attachments +</PRE> + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="009111.html">[Mageia-dev] Please test dracut (mkinitrd replacement) +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="009199.html">[Mageia-dev] Please test dracut (mkinitrd replacement) +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#9191">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#9191">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#9191">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#9191">[ 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> |