On Wed, 28.01.15 00:58, Felix Miata (mrma...@earthlink.net) wrote:

> Lennart Poettering composed on 2015-01-28 02:03 (UTC+0100):
> 
> > Felix Miata wrote:
> 
> >> Both. When they occur during init they repeat during shutdown. Even when I
> >> let init complete and succeed to fix the typo or oversight, the init 
> >> failure
> >> gets remembered and repeated at shutdown. Often the start job is on account
> >> of a volume label that has been replaced, usually along with a UUID, 
> >> because
> >> the clone is a partition on the same HD. Fedora is particularly frustrating
> >> by embedding dependent root volume label and not obeying root= on cmdline
> >> (openSUSE obeys root=). Those typos usually have to be fixed by chroot to 
> >> run
> >> dracut.
> 
> > Hmm, Fedora doesn't obey root=? That sounds like a bug. 
> 
> I think it's only a problem due to Fedora's configuration of its Dracut
> hostonly option used by default. AFAICR, its rescue initrds have always
> worked. I can't remember now, but it may possibly be Mageia with hostonly
> enabled disobeys root= too, locking onto root's UUID when the initrd was
> built. It's never been a problem I've observed in openSUSE, which let dracut
> evolve a lot longer before switching to it from mkinitrd.

Hmm, but even in hostonly mode I'd assume that kernel cmdline settings
override the included settings... Still sounds like a bug...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat
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