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

Sun Jul 22 13:25:56 CEST 2012

22.07.2012 14:23, Charles A Edwards skrev:
+> On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 10:39:12 +0100
+> Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> 
+>> 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"?
+> 
+> 
+> As the name of the image did not change and the convertfs was added 
+> at the boot prompt rather than as an append to lilo it I did not run
+> "lilo".
+> 
+> But lilo was the issue.
+> I had tried with all the kernels I had installed with no success,
+> switched to grub using the same command at the boot prompt and the fs
+> converted nicely.
+> 
+> Will be interesting to see if any others using lilo have this problem
+> or if I am just "lucky".
+> 
+
+Nope. everyone using lilo will hit it as every time you recreate initrd,
+lilo must be re-run to be mapped/used correctly...
+
+That's the "downside" of using lilo...
+
+--
+Thomas
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