[Mageia-dev] New dracut - please test

Sat Feb 25 11:46:04 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 25/02/12 05:04 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:42:01 -0500, Colin Guthrie
+> <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+> 
+>> The other big change here is to automatically generate a much bigger
+>> initramfs when doing an upgrade from mga1. This will include a lot more
+> 
+> I just tried it running dracut in a chroot from mga1, and got the
+> bigger initramfs.
+> 
+> It still fails to mount /usr, unless I break at pre-pivot and manually run
+> lvm vgchange -a y
+
+Now that is interesting...
+
+> I think that should be done before looking for the root filesystem,
+> or swap, etc.
+
+Correct it should. Although dracut itself won't actually look for swap,
+unless resume support is enabled.
+
+> I also still get the pata_acpi loading before pata_via, which makes my
+> hard drives hd? instead of sd?, and stops /dev/sr0 from being created.
+
+Yeah I still need to look at that issue.
+
+Col
+
+
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