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You will see a lot of +</I>><i> errors when booting and and you need to wait for timeouts to happen. The /usr +</I>><i> move kind of happens randomly. +</I> +It certainly shouldn't behave that way! It certainly doesn't "happen +randomly", it happens when you specifically tell it to happen via a +kernel command line argument and if you're on the same filesystem for +both / and /usr then the whole process will usually take < 1 minute +(depending on disk speed and number of packages). + +There should be NO timeouts (or at least no *more* timeouts than usual! +:<i>p) The usrmove part of the initrd is just a script that is run at the +</I>right point and has absolutely zero bearing on any timeouts. + +I've not seen any bug report about this behaviour (other than what has +been discussed and resolved on this list), so if you have such reports, +please do share them. + +The new dracut was problematic due to various incompatibilities and +issues introduced by half updated systems in cauldron, but upgrading +from mga2 should, in theory at least, be much smoother. + +><i> You may need to try a few times. Calculate +</I>><i> about 1/2 hour to boot, but eventually you should get there. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> This is on a virtual box. +</I> +Can you give more details. If it's VB then any strange timeouts etc. +should be easy to reproduce. I have of course ran this upgrade about 20 +times inside virtual box and even when they were on separate partitions +it didn't take more than a few minutes to copy the files. + +I'd really like to get to the bottom of any issue, but I need specifics! + +Cheers + +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="018331.html">[Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 can be turned to cauldron actually? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="018336.html">[Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 can be turned to cauldron actually? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#18334">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#18334">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#18334">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#18334">[ 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> |