Re: [Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2012-02-03 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 03/02/12 08:04 did gyre and gimble: On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:22:30 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Are things working OK for you now with dracut or is it still busted? Just to clarify why I think the problem is happening on single

Re: [Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2012-02-02 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:22:30 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Are things working OK for you now with dracut or is it still busted? I've finally figured out why it wasn't working for my system. Two separate problems. First, /dev/$volumegroup/$logicalvolume symlinks are no

Re: [Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2012-01-17 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 19/12/11 21:48 did gyre and gimble: On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:22:46 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Can you run the attached? It works. It identifies /usr as being on 252:9, which is on 8:12, which has the fs_type LVM2_member.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2011-12-28 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:22:46 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Can you run the attached? It works. It identifies /usr as being on 252:9, which is on 8:12, which has the fs_type LVM2_member. Regards, Dave Hodgins

Re: [Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2011-12-18 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:00:51 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: The shell script you'll need to tweak is /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90lvm/module-setup.sh. That is the problem. In that module, it finds /usr on dev/block/252:9, and the call to get_fs_type correctly returns the

Re: [Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2011-12-18 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 18/12/11 21:28 did gyre and gimble: On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:00:51 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: The shell script you'll need to tweak is /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90lvm/module-setup.sh. That is the problem. In that module, it

Re: [Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2011-12-17 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:11:48 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: I'll have a look and if I cannot come up with something better, I'll just give up and force grep to be installed :D With the current versions of dracut and lvm, lvm is failing to load due to libncursesw.so.5 not

Re: [Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2011-12-17 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 17/12/11 20:00 did gyre and gimble: On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:11:48 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: I'll have a look and if I cannot come up with something better, I'll just give up and force grep to be installed :D With the current

Re: [Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2011-12-17 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 17/12/11 20:21 did gyre and gimble: So I've got the necessary lib... I wonder if this is a side effect of me having lib64ncursesw-devel-5.9-2.mga2 installed (i.e. the dev package)? Perhaps it's someone the key to including the right lib? Perhaps you can

Re: [Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2011-12-17 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:21:14 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Dracut should install all dynamic libs needed by apps. Which app needs this library specifically? When I tried to boot after running dracut with the default config, I was dropped to a shell, with the non-lvm root

Re: [Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2011-12-17 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:21:14 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Dracut should install all dynamic libs needed by apps. Which app needs this library specifically? Do you have /usr on a logical volume? I've figured out now, that /lib/dracut/hooks/pre-pivot/50mount-usr.sh is

Re: [Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2011-12-17 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 18/12/11 00:04 did gyre and gimble: On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:21:14 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Dracut should install all dynamic libs needed by apps. Which app needs this library specifically? When I tried to boot after running

[Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2011-12-16 Thread JA Magallon
Hi... After those couple previous thread it looks like move to dracut is ongoing, so I decided to try it. I found a couple problems: - dracut inists on loading nouveau driver. With mknitrd, just booting with nokmsboot works. Booting with a dracut generated initrd ignores that. I think it is

Re: [Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2011-12-16 Thread Anssi Hannula
On 16.12.2011 14:35, Colin Guthrie wrote: Hiya, 'Twas brillig, and JA Magallon at 16/12/11 12:06 did gyre and gimble: After those couple previous thread it looks like move to dracut is ongoing, so I decided to try it. Good! This is exactly the kind of feedback we need! I found a couple

Re: [Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2011-12-16 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Anssi Hannula at 16/12/11 12:58 did gyre and gimble: On 16.12.2011 14:35, Colin Guthrie wrote: Hiya, 'Twas brillig, and JA Magallon at 16/12/11 12:06 did gyre and gimble: After those couple previous thread it looks like move to dracut is ongoing, so I decided to try it.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2011-12-16 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and JA Magallon at 16/12/11 22:52 did gyre and gimble: On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:35:22 + Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Hiya, 'Twas brillig, and JA Magallon at 16/12/11 12:06 did gyre and gimble: After those couple previous thread it looks like move to dracut is

Re: [Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2011-12-16 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and JA Magallon at 16/12/11 23:08 did gyre and gimble: On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:35:22 + Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Hiya, 'Twas brillig, and JA Magallon at 16/12/11 12:06 did gyre and gimble: After those couple previous thread it looks like move to dracut is

Re: [Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2011-12-16 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 12:08:36AM +0100, JA Magallon wrote: If its is (d)ash: CMDLINE=$(cat /proc/cmdline) Or save two fork+execs this way, on dash or bash: read CMDLINE /proc/cmdline case ${CMDLINE} in * nokmsboot *) echo YES ;; esac if if uses bash: