[Mageia-dev] Please test dracut (mkinitrd replacement)

Colin Guthrie mageia at colin.guthr.ie
Sat Oct 22 15:05:23 CEST 2011


'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 22/10/11 03:10 did gyre and gimble:
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:29:46 -0400, Colin Guthrie
> <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
> Worked ok here with lvm for /usr, /home, etc. Still affected by
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1525#c73
> just like mkinitrd, putting the loading of pata_acpi before
> the loading of pata_via, which makes my dvd drive unusable
> till I edit the initrd to reverse the load order.
> 
> What controls the order it chooses for the loading of modules?

Not 100% sure what determines the order or priority here, but hopefully
the same fix will affect both. Not 100% sure tho'.

Col


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