[Mageia-dev] Boot borked cause procfs :((

Thomas Backlund tmb at mageia.org
Tue Jan 8 14:01:47 CET 2013


Colin Guthrie skrev 8.1.2013 14:28:
> 'Twas brillig, and JA Magallón at 08/01/13 12:11 did gyre and gimble:
>> Hi...
>>
>> After updating cauldron to latest packages, I rebuilt manually the boot
>> initrd with dracut -f. After that, the system does not boot:
>>
>> mount: /proc: filesystem mounted, but mount(8) failed: No such file or
>> directory
>> Cannot mount proc on /proc! Compile the kernel with CONFIG_PROC_FS!
>>
>> And then a kernel panic...
>>

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8614


>> I think that I have boxes that boot because I have not rebuilt the initrd,
>> but I don't dare to try one other :).
>>
>> Any ideas o how to debug/fix this ?
>
> I heard this is due to new util-linux. My initrd was from 3rd Jan, but
> util-linux installed on 5th Jan. I've regenerated my initrd so will
> reboot sometime today to see if it now breaks with the new version of mount.
>

It will.

I hope you have a backup initrd to use.


 > We maybe need to patch mount? I don't think it's really the kernel
> that's at fault here.

I will investigte it tonight..

--
Thomas




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