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

Sun Jul 22 11:39:12 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Charles A Edwards at 22/07/12 10:20 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 09:59:27 +0100
+> Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> 
+>>> 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?
+> 
+> I use lilo.
+> 
+> [root at SuperSize ~]# uname -r
+> 3.4.6-tmb-server-1.mga3
+> [root at SuperSize ~]# dracut -f -a convertfs
+> I: *** Including module: dash ***
+> I: *** Including module: i18n ***
+> I: *** Including module: rpmversion ***
+> I: *** Including module: convertfs ***
+> I: *** Including module: plymouth ***
+> I: *** Including module: kernel-modules ***
+> I: *** Including module: resume ***
+> I: *** Including module: rootfs-block ***
+> I: *** Including module: terminfo ***
+> I: *** Including module: udev-rules ***
+> I: Skipping udev rule: 50-udev.rules
+> I: Skipping udev rule: 95-late.rules
+> I: Skipping udev rule: 50-firmware.rules
+> I: *** Including module: usrmount ***
+> I: *** Including module: base ***
+> I: *** Including module: fs-lib ***
+> I: *** Including module: shutdown ***
+> I: Skipping program kexec as it cannot be found and is flagged to be
+> optional I: *** Including modules done ***
+> I: Wrote /boot/initrd-3.4.6-tmb-server-1.mga3.img:
+> I: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7032269 Jul 22
+> 05:02 /boot/initrd-3.4.6-tmb-server-1.mga3.img
+> 
+> [root at SuperSize ~]# lsinitrd | grep convertfs
+> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          304 Feb 24 09:38
+> lib/dracut/hooks/pre-pivot/99do-convertfs.sh
+> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         8031 Jul 21 12:19 usr/bin/convertfs
+> 
+> 
+> 
+> reboot system
+> 
+> Same occurs
+> 
+> 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:/#
+>  
+> 
+> [root at SuperSize ~]# uname -r
+> 3.4.6-tmb-server-1.mga3
+> 
+> [root at SuperSize ~]# lsinitrd | grep convertfs
+> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          304 Feb 24 09:38
+> lib/dracut/hooks/pre-pivot/99do-convertfs.sh
+> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         8031 Jul 21 12:19 usr/bin/convertfs
+
+
+That's weird.
+
+When in the shell can you (triple) check that the path usr/bin/convertfs
+is really there in the initrd (just type "ls usr/bin/convertfs" in the
+first shell)
+
+As you use lilo have you run whatever command you have to run to update
+it before rebooting? I forget what it is - maybe just "lilo"?
+
+Col
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
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