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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] RFC: Drop mkinitrd completely in favour of dracut.</H1>
    <B>Colin Guthrie</B> 
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    <I>Mon Dec  5 19:36:39 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>Hi Dave,

'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 03/12/11 09:21 did gyre and gimble:
&gt;<i> On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 01:05:31 -0500, Thomas Backlund &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">tmb at mageia.org</A>&gt; wrote:
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Fyi. On one of my cauldron installs, I have /usr in a lvm
</I>&gt;<i> logical volume.  In order to get this to be bootable, I
</I>&gt;<i> modified /etc/dracut.conf to have
</I>....

I've included some code to detect lvm on /usr. I've not tested it but
can you test an unmodified version of dracut (rel 7.mga2) to see if it
generates a suitable initrd for you?

Many thanks.

Col


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