first, there's a textline i see which says that there no "nogroup" group inside the initrd, which is required by rpc.idmapd. perhaps the fact that there is a text line at that point breaks the plymouth startup? maybe that is another problem.
anyway, i had made a generic one via chrooted methods, and then i made a local one after the PXE+NFS was working (so that i could get all the correct drivers). firstly, i had to add nfs manually, for some reason, even though i had already removed network from omit, the nfs wasn't autoadded, even though / is nfs mountpoint in fstab. but then systemd-remount-fs fails too, for unknown reasons. is it related? i donno. in any case, the host specific one gives an error about be2-latin1. looking at the different initrds (first one is generic; second is hostlocal): [root@localhost linux]# lsinitrd /data/system/nfsroot/chestbuster- mageia-3/boot/initrd-3.7.1-desktop-1.mga3.img | grep be2-latin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 435 Jul 21 20:27 usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/azerty/be2-latin1.uni.map.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 439 Jul 21 20:27 usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/azerty/be2-latin1.map.gz [root@localhost linux]# lsinitrd /data/system/nfsroot/chestbuster- mageia-3/boot/initrd-3.7.1-desktop-1.mga3_new.img | grep be2-latin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 740 Jan 5 16:50 usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/azerty/be2-latin1.uni.map is the problem the one without uni? or because it's not gzipped? no idea...
