[Mageia-dev] [soft-commits] [4017] Include persistent-storage udev rules ( needed for UUID info on root disks during install)

Wed Apr 18 19:17:34 CEST 2012

On 11 April 2012 10:41, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>>> Include persistent-storage udev rules (needed for UUID info on root disks
+>>> during install)
+>>
+>> For the record, what does this fix?
+>
+> Sorry, I should have been more verbose.
+>
+> Basically because of the previous commit:
+> http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft?view=revision&revision=4014
+>
+> We can now generate a "hostonly" initrd, i.e. a nice small, "normal"
+> initrd that we typically produce, tailored for the system in question.
+>
+> As a fallout from this, when running the install with an encrypted root
+> partition (and possibly just a normal LVM, not sure), various udev
+> properties were not injected into the udev database. These properties
+> (FS_UUID - can be seen via e.g. udevadm info --query=property
+> --name=/dev/sda5) as needed by dracut to detect things properly (rather
+> than resulting to lots of weird and wonderful probing methods dracut
+> tries to use udev as it's primary source of info).
+>
+> So these rules ensured that the UUID of /dev/sd* partitions were
+> available in udev.
+
+Maybe should we include them into rescue too, shouldn't we?
+