Re: initrd-tools and booting root on lvm with new kernel

2005-10-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:08:39PM +0200, Maximilian Attems wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 08:24:49PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Maximilian Attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > also it would be _very_ cool to do the switch after a major upload. > > > just the switch to the newer too

Re: initrd-tools and booting root on lvm with new kernel

2005-10-06 Thread Horms
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 07:58:10PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 07:31:18PM +0200, Maximilian Attems wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 06:58:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > Do you have a link to it ? And does it support using yaird as alternative > > > ? Or > > >

Re: initrd-tools and booting root on lvm with new kernel

2005-10-06 Thread Maximilian Attems
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 08:24:49PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Maximilian Attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > also it would be _very_ cool to do the switch after a major upload. > > just the switch to the newer tools and nothing else. > > ubuntu has been bitten by this transition. > > the u

Re: initrd-tools and booting root on lvm with new kernel

2005-10-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 08:24:49PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > I guess we could add a version specific check into the > > > postinst to default to using yaird or mkinitramfs , if installed, > > > in preference to mkinitrd, though I am usually hesitant to add in > > > version depe

Re: initrd-tools and booting root on lvm with new kernel

2005-10-06 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 17:44:02 +0200 Maximilian Attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:29:06AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > [snip snip] > > mkinitramfs fails if the kernel > >

Re: initrd-tools and booting root on lvm with new kernel

2005-10-06 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 17:57:08 +0200 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mkyaird (or whatever it is called) mkinitrd.yaird is the name of the yaird wrapper with mkinitrd options. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt

Re: initrd-tools and booting root on lvm with new kernel

2005-10-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 07:31:18PM +0200, Maximilian Attems wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 06:58:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Do you have a link to it ? And does it support using yaird as alternative ? > > Or > > running initrd 2.4 or pre-2.6.12 kernels ? > > it's supporting initrd-to

Re: initrd-tools and booting root on lvm with new kernel

2005-10-06 Thread Maximilian Attems
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 06:58:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Do you have a link to it ? And does it support using yaird as alternative ? Or > running initrd 2.4 or pre-2.6.12 kernels ? it's supporting initrd-tools on hppa and ia64 afaik. > The above proposal works with kernel-package just fi

Re: initrd-tools and booting root on lvm with new kernel

2005-10-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 06:43:54PM +0200, Maximilian Attems wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 05:57:08PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:29:06AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 13:03:45 +0200, Maximilian Attems > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >

Re: initrd-tools and booting root on lvm with new kernel

2005-10-06 Thread Maximilian Attems
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 05:57:08PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:29:06AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 13:03:45 +0200, Maximilian Attems > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > > naa initramfs-tools are in the archive an working for all arch but > >

Re: initrd-tools and booting root on lvm with new kernel

2005-10-06 Thread Maximilian Attems
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:29:06AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Err. putting > ramdisk = /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs > in /etc/kernel-img.conf does seem to work. indeed, thanks for pointing that out. > Or are you talking about > using mkinitramfs by default? mkinitramfs fails if the

Re: initrd-tools and booting root on lvm with new kernel

2005-10-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:29:06AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 13:03:45 +0200, Maximilian Attems > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > naa initramfs-tools are in the archive an working for all arch but > > sparc (klibc ftbfs there with gcc3.4/4.0). > > > the kernel-package d

Re: initrd-tools and booting root on lvm with new kernel

2005-10-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 13:03:45 +0200, Maximilian Attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > naa initramfs-tools are in the archive an working for all arch but > sparc (klibc ftbfs there with gcc3.4/4.0). > the kernel-package does not yet use the initramfs-tools. you need to > invoke update-initramfs like

Re: initrd-tools and booting root on lvm with new kernel

2005-10-03 Thread Maximilian Attems
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 05:54:51PM +0900, Horms wrote: > On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 07:38:54PM +0200, Jens Wilke wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I just tried to install a new kernel (2.6.13.2) and went into the problem > > that > > there is no devfs support any more but initrd-tools expect that to > > mount

Re: initrd-tools and booting root on lvm with new kernel

2005-10-03 Thread Horms
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 07:38:54PM +0200, Jens Wilke wrote: > Hi! > > I just tried to install a new kernel (2.6.13.2) and went into the problem that > there is no devfs support any more but initrd-tools expect that to mount/scan > for the root lvm volume. Yes, that is a known problem. We are work

initrd-tools and booting root on lvm with new kernel

2005-10-02 Thread Jens Wilke
Hi! I just tried to install a new kernel (2.6.13.2) and went into the problem that there is no devfs support any more but initrd-tools expect that to mount/scan for the root lvm volume. A solution to fix this is to include udev in the initrd. I experimented with another approach and using the sy