[Mageia-dev] Unable to boot into kernel-3.1.3

Mon Nov 28 19:38:29 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Kira at 28/11/11 17:44 did gyre and gimble:
+> 在 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:54:53 +0800, Colin Guthrie
+> <mageia at colin.guthr.ie>寫道:
+>> Yeah this is not 100% supported at the moment. We need to make sure the
+>> initrd does the mounting for you, but I'm not sure it does at the moment
+>> (I've not specifically tested it).
+>>
+>> Is there an exotic filesystem on it? LVM or similar or is it just a nice
+>> simple FS straight on to the disk?
+>>
+>> If it's got LVM we'll have some issues overall, but otherwise it should
+>> be possible to make dracut mount the disk for you, but I've simply not
+>> had time to look into this kind of setup.
+>>
+>> Col
+> NO LVM, just pure filesystem on it.
+
+Cool, then it should be easy enough to support this in dracut, but I'll
+need to investigate it a bit more to see exactly how.
+
+Will try and do that over the next few days.
+
+Col
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