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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Please test dracut (mkinitrd replacement)</H1>
<B>Colin Guthrie</B>
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<I>Fri Oct 21 01:29:46 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>Hi,
Due to upcoming changes to systemd and friends we'll likely need to use
dracut rather than mkinitrd for some setups (i.e. those with LVM volumes
defined in /etc/fstab)
It would be good if people here could test as we will likely make it the
default at some point in the not too distant future.
To test:
sudo -i (or su -)
urpmi dracut
cd /boot
mv initrd-3.1.0-desktop-0.rc10.1.mga2.img initrd-old.img
/sbin/installkernel -N 3.1.0-desktop-0.rc10.1.mga2
This should install dracut, move the existing initrd out of the way, and
regenerate a new one using dracut. If you are using a different kernel
version then adjust the two commands accordingly to pick the right version.
Then just reboot. Hopefully all will go well and you won't notice much
difference :)
If it fails you should still be able to use the previous initrd by
editing the grub command line and specifying the initrd-old.img file
manually.
Cheers
Col
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