Package: initrd-tools
Version: 0.1.81.1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
When trying to boot off an initrd created for a LVM2 root with a
devfs-less kernel, the LVM tools attempt and fail to create device nodes
under /dev/mapper (since cramfs is read-only).
I know this has been declared "fixed" by telling everybody to move on to
initramfs-tools (I must say I find it a dubious practice to close bugs
that way), but this is of little solace to those of us running sarge.
So, I'm attaching a quick and dirty patch to mkinitrd that solves this
issue. It's ugly and produces some warnings on boot, but it works. (It
shouldn't break thinks for devfs-enabled kernels either, but I haven't
tested that assumption.) Simply apply the patch, run dpkg-divert, and
you're all set.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-3
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages initrd-tools depends on:
ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.93-5 The GNU core utilities
ii cpio 2.6-10 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii cramfsprogs 1.1-6 Tools for CramFs (Compressed ROM F
ii dash 0.5.3-2 The Debian Almquist Shell
ii util-linux 2.12r-6 Miscellaneous system utilities
initrd-tools recommends no packages.
-- debconf-show failed
--- mkinitrd.distrib 2005-05-26 19:44:00.000000000 -0400
+++ mkinitrd 2006-02-21 18:04:54.000000000 -0500
@@ -305,7 +305,9 @@
cat /var/lvm.conf > /etc/lvm/lvm.conf
fi
mount -nt devfs devfs /dev
+ mount -nt tmpfs tmpfs /dev/mapper
vgchange -a y ${vg}
+ umount /dev/mapper
umount /dev
umount -n /var
umount -n /etc/lvm
@@ -1277,7 +1279,7 @@
esac
cd initrd
- mkdir -p dev2 devfs etc keyscripts mnt proc scripts sys tmp var
+ mkdir -p dev/mapper dev2 devfs etc keyscripts mnt proc scripts sys tmp
var
> etc/mtab
