[Mageia-dev] Boot borked cause procfs :((

Tue Jan 8 14:52:57 CET 2013

On 01/08/2013 02:01 PM, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+> Colin Guthrie skrev 8.1.2013 14:28:
+>> 'Twas brillig, and JA Magallón at 08/01/13 12:11 did gyre and gimble:
+>>> Hi...
+>>>
+>>> After updating cauldron to latest packages, I rebuilt manually the boot
+>>> initrd with dracut -f. After that, the system does not boot:
+>>>
+>>> mount: /proc: filesystem mounted, but mount(8) failed: No such file or
+>>> directory
+>>> Cannot mount proc on /proc! Compile the kernel with CONFIG_PROC_FS!
+>>>
+>>> And then a kernel panic...
+>>>
+>
+> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8614
+>
+
+Well, i copied the libraries amd mount binary from a beta3 image,
+rebuilt initrd and the system boots.
+
+>
+>>> I think that I have boxes that boot because I have not rebuilt the initrd,
+>>> but I don't dare to try one other :).
+>>>
+>>> Any ideas o how to debug/fix this ?
+>>
+>> I heard this is due to new util-linux. My initrd was from 3rd Jan, but
+>> util-linux installed on 5th Jan. I've regenerated my initrd so will
+>> reboot sometime today to see if it now breaks with the new version of mount.
+>>
+>
+> It will.
+>
+> I hope you have a backup initrd to use.
+>
+
+Now I have ;)
+
+>
+>  > We maybe need to patch mount? I don't think it's really the kernel
+>> that's at fault here.
+>
+> I will investigte it tonight..
+>
+> --
+> Thomas
+>
+>
+
+
+-- 
+J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com>        \               Winter is coming...
+