[Mageia-dev] Please test dracut (mkinitrd replacement)

[D.Morgan]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Donald Stewart <watersnowrock at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 October 2011 14:05, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>> 'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 22/10/11 03:10 did gyre and gimble:
>>> On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:29:46 -0400, Colin Guthrie
>>> <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>>>
>>>> sudo -i (or su -)
>>>> urpmi dracut
>>>> cd /boot
>>>> mv initrd-3.1.0-desktop-0.rc10.1.mga2.img initrd-old.img
>>>> /sbin/installkernel -N 3.1.0-desktop-0.rc10.1.mga2
>>>
>>> Worked ok here with lvm for /usr, /home, etc. Still affected by
>>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1525#c73
>>> just like mkinitrd, putting the loading of pata_acpi before
>>> the loading of pata_via, which makes my dvd drive unusable
>>> till I edit the initrd to reverse the load order.
>>>
>>> What controls the order it chooses for the loading of modules?
>>
>> Not 100% sure what determines the order or priority here, but hopefully
>> the same fix will affect both. Not 100% sure tho'.
>>
>> Col
>>
>>
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>>
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>
> I tested and these were the results.
>
> With standard sysvinit booting the system:
> Startup and services running as normal, however system hangs at final
> shutdown/restart
>
> With systemd:
> No sound, no networkmanager without service restart, even after that
> the network would last for about 1-2 minutes the cut off. No
> shutdown/restart whatsoever, kde would close then I would be dropped
> to tty1.
>
> I haven't had time to test with the old initrd and systemd to see if
> these problems are dracut or not.
>

if not already done, try to disable speedboot and reboot .