[Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! <---- Instructions

Sun Jul 22 10:59:27 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Charles A Edwards at 22/07/12 09:53 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 09:19:26 +0100
+> Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> 
+>> When you reboot please append the following:
+>>
+>>   rw rd.convertfs rd.break=pre-pivot
+>>
+>> and make sure your remove the following
+>>
+>>   splash silent
+>>
+>>
+>> As noted earlier, this will drop you to two debug shells. Type "exit"
+>> at the first one and then you should see the conversion taking place,
+>> including any errors relating to rolling back the change and why.
+>>
+>> that should give you some clues.
+> 
+> Booting with
+> rw rd.convertfs rd.break=pre-pivot
+> 
+> Using "exit" on 1st shell
+> 
+> (output given as follows)
+> 
+> exit
+> pre-pivot
+> 
+> dracut warning: Break before switch_root
+> dracut warning: Break before switch_root
+> 
+> Dropping to debug shell.
+> 
+> sh:0: can't access tty; job control off
+> switch_root:/#
+> 
+> (end output)
+> 
+> I type exit and the system continues booting.
+
+
+So this looks really like the convertfs module is simply not included in
+your initrd.
+
+Can you confirm that your grub entry is using the latest kernel and that
+the initrd used is the right one?
+
+  lsinitrd | grep convertfs
+
+This should give you some results.
+
+It just seems like you regenerated the initrd when not booted on the
+latest kernel or that you are using a non-latest initrd.
+
+Either way just work out which kernel+initrd combo you are using and
+regenerate it to include the convertfs module.
+
+Cheers
+
+Col
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
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