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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'm sad to be the first to give bad news about that but: +when I rebooted it didn't work. + +Here is the partitionning scheme I have: +/boot 256 MB +raid 0: 2x 60 GB +LVM on raid +/ on logical volume, btrfs filesystem + +When I boot with the dracut initrd I don't get my / mounted. + +Instead, after a while plymouth disappears and I get the following +message, repeated all over the screen: +modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting btrfs +(/lib/modules/3.1.0-desktop-0.rc10.1.mga2/kernel/fs/btrfs/btrfs.ko.gz) +Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) + +When I run dmesg|less: +Everything is fine until my logical volumes are active and then I get +this message repeated over and over: +dracut: Checking, if btrfs device complete + +and in the middle of this flood I get this: +scanning for all btrfs devices +failed to open /dev/btrfs_control skipping device registration +scanning devices md0 for LVM volume groups +Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while +Found volume group "kaze" using metadata type lvm2 +Partial mode. Incomplete volumes will be processed +5 logical volume(s) in volume group "kaze" now active +Autoassembling MDRaid. + +and in the end I get +dracut: Warning: no root device "block:/dev/kaze/cauldron" found + +So, to me the problem is neither raid nor LVM but btrfs + +Any idea on how to solve this issue ? + +In case it can be useful, here is the result of +lsinitrd-dracut /boot/initrd.img : <A HREF="http://pastebin.com/Xe5Jhj38">http://pastebin.com/Xe5Jhj38</A> +><i> If it fails you should still be able to use the previous initrd by +</I>><i> editing the grub command line and specifying the initrd-old.img file +</I>><i> manually. +</I>><i> +</I>Indeed, but does that mean that for the next kernel upgrade it will use +dracut by default ? Is there a way to generate the initrd the old way ? +><i> +</I>><i> Cheers +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Col +</I>><i> +</I>><i> -- +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Colin Guthrie +</I>><i> colin(at)mageia.org +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Day Job: +</I>><i> Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +</I>><i> Open Source: +</I>><i> Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> +</I>><i> PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> +</I>><i> Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</I> +Thanks in advance, + +Regards, +-- +Rémy CLOUARD +() ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail +/\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="009095.html">[Mageia-dev] IDE/SATA driver ordering [was Re: Please test dracut (mkinitrd replacement)] +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="009090.html">[Mageia-dev] Please test dracut (mkinitrd replacement) +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#9089">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#9089">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#9089">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#9089">[ 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> |