[Mageia-dev] UsrMove failure

Tue Aug 14 13:39:34 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 14/08/12 10:50 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Tuesday 14 August 2012 10:54, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>> 5. reboot with kernel command line params and convert the fs
+> 
+> Once I figured out the use of e2fsck, it boots, but it does Not convert the filesystem. If it doesit is invisible to me.
+> All the usual root folders (bin, sbin, lib, lib64 etc) are still there. No new symlinks of any kind. Nothing.
+
+OK then some questions:
+ 1. Did you definitely regenerate the initrd and include the convertfs
+module?
+ 2. Did you definitely add the correct kernel command line options to
+mount / rw and trigger conversion process?
+
+If both the above are true, then, as per the instructions, try passing
+rd.break=pre-pivot to the command line and remove the "splash" option.
+
+When booting. You will be dropped to a debug shell *before* conversion.
+Just type "exit" and it should do the conversion and dump you to another
+shell.
+
+If things are failing you should see that there and it should roll back.
+
+A typical problem would be mounting /usr readonly if it's on a separate
+partition but the instructions are clear on that one too.
+
+Hope this helps.
+
+Col
+
+
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