[Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

Tue Feb 21 13:53:59 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 21/02/12 12:32 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Tuesday 21 February 2012 10:36, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>> dracut -f foo.img 3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2
+>> lsinitrd foo.img | grep " bin/"
+> 
+> http://www.solbu.net/mageia-dracut/dracut.txt
+> 
+>> mkinitrd -f foo.img 3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2
+>> lsinitrd foo.img | grep " bin/"
+> 
+> http://www.solbu.net/mageia-dracut/mkinitrd.txt
+> 
+> I compared the existing, broken initrd with the new foo, in case it's interesting:
+> ===
+> # ll foo.img /boot/initrd-3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2.img
+> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2572041 feb.  18 20:37 /boot/initrd-3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2.img
+> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5593019 feb.  21 13:24 foo.img
+> ===
+> 
+
+Thanks for that.
+
+Sadly this test shows things working as expected when you do it
+manually. Lots of things included now in bin/ and a sensible size from
+the resulting initrd.
+
+You can probably boot to the new kernel using that initrd now. (just: mv
+foo.img /boot/initrd-3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2.img)...
+
+And yet again the problem hides itself... :s
+
+I'm trying to debug the issue via:
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4588 if you're interested.
+
+Col
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
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