[Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

Thu Feb 16 01:10:09 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 15/02/12 09:36 did gyre and gimble:
+> 'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 15/02/12 01:38 did gyre and gimble:
+>> On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:55:17 -0500, Colin Guthrie
+>> <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>>
+>>> Can everyone please test the new dracut please? Especially those of you
+>>
+>> With dracut-015-2, / on a partition, /usr on a lvm logical volume, the
+>> initramfs no longer has the lvm2 command, or the dm_mod kernel module
+>> making it impossible to mount /usr.
+>>
+>> The file 50mount-usr.sh is present in hooks/pre-pivot, but the file
+>> 30parse-lvm.sh is no longer in hooks/cmdline.
+> 
+> Damn, it looked like the code was OK for that. I'll have to reintroduce
+> some patches I guess.
+> 
+> Cheers for the report, I'll try and create a similar VM tonight.
+
+OK, that was a very strange quirk.... it all boiled down to a string
+comparison function :s
+
+Can you try with dracut-015-3.mga2 when it arrives?
+
+If you cannot boot, you can just pass rd.lvm.lv=foo/bar on the kernel
+command line (where foo is the vgname and bar is the lvname)... tho'
+this might or might not work too well as lvm might not be on the initrd
+itself.... Even if it's not included, it however possible to run
+things... with our current split of /usr (I was able to run the
+necessary binaries from /sysroot with appropriate LD_LIBRARY_PATH tweaks!)
+
+Col
+
+
+-- 
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