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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Please test dracut (mkinitrd replacement)</H1>
    <B>Balcaen John</B> 
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<PRE>Le vendredi 21 octobre 2011 00:29:46 Colin Guthrie a &#233;crit :
&gt;<i> Hi,
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Due to upcoming changes to systemd and friends we'll likely need to use
</I>&gt;<i> dracut rather than mkinitrd for some setups (i.e. those with LVM volumes
</I>&gt;<i> defined in /etc/fstab)
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> It would be good if people here could test as we will likely make it the
</I>&gt;<i> default at some point in the not too distant future.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> To test:
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> sudo -i (or su -)
</I>&gt;<i> urpmi dracut
</I>&gt;<i> cd /boot
</I>&gt;<i> mv initrd-3.1.0-desktop-0.rc10.1.mga2.img initrd-old.img
</I>&gt;<i> /sbin/installkernel -N 3.1.0-desktop-0.rc10.1.mga2
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> This should install dracut, move the existing initrd out of the way, and
</I>&gt;<i> regenerate a new one using dracut. If you are using a different kernel
</I>&gt;<i> version then adjust the two commands accordingly to pick the right version.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Then just reboot. Hopefully all will go well and you won't notice much
</I>&gt;<i> difference :)
</I>Indeed it did reboot without too much problem here with lvm for / &amp; /home.
However i noticed that the initrd is bigger than the old mkinitrd :
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 7,8M oct.  20 22:40 initrd-3.1.0-
desktop-0.rc10.1.mga2.img
-rw-------  1 root root 5,4M oct.  18 09:50 initrd-3.1.0-
desktop-0.rc10.1.mga2.img-old

During the creation of the initrd there's several warnings  about moving 
several files to /etc/modprobe.d/ (such as the 
/etc/modprobe.conf), i noticed especially this one 

&#171; perl: &quot;include /lib/module-init-tools/modprobe.compat&quot; is deprecated, please 
use /etc/modprobe.d 
&#187;
It seems this file was created to ensure transition between the 2.4 &amp; 2.6 
kernel release, maybe we can safely drop it now ?

Regards,

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Balcaen John
Jabber-id: <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mikala at jabber.littleboboy.net</A>
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