'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 14/08/12 14:58 did gyre and gimble: > On Tuesday 14 August 2012 15:14, Colin Guthrie wrote: >> Can I ask what version of dracut you are using? It should be 023 now but >> perhaps it could not be installed for some reason? I've not tested the >> conversion with dracut 023, but AFAICS there are no real changes to the >> script itself. >> >> Also after booting, does "lsinitrd | grep convert" confirm that you do >> indeed have the convert script in the initrd? > > (17:50:05) [solbu@cauldron ~]$ rpm -qa dracut > dracut-023-2.mga3 > (17:50:14) [solbu@cauldron ~]$ lsinitrd |grep convert > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 304 Aug 14 15:06 > lib/dracut/hooks/pre-pivot/99-do-convertfs.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8031 Aug 14 15:06 usr/bin/convertfs
OK, colour me confused... :s Everything looks in place. The kernel modules, the initrd, the kernel command line. It just doesn't seem to actually happen :s I'll fire up an old VM tonight to test this and see if I can reproduce. I may have to come back to you if I cannot get it done. It should be quite safe to run "convertfs /sysroot" after the first exit (with rd.break=pre-pivot) but I *really* want to figure out why it's just not working. Just so I can pick the right VM, what's your disk layout? ext3/4? /usr on a separate partition or not? (/me is now wondering if the "rw" command line option is enough to mount / rw... perhaps that's what changed - even still you should have gotten an error message about it after the first exit with rd.break...) >> I guarantee the cause will be a weird little trivial thing, but it'll be >> one of those annoying ones that take a while to show themselves!! I hate >> those bugs :p > > In Norway there is a saying which goes something like this; > a small tuft of grass can bring down a big load. ;-)= > :) -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
