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

[Donald Stewart]

On 22 October 2011 15:00, D.Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>>
>> 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 .
>

Will do, i'll report on this later, exercise and autodesk inventor on
windows 8 are taking up some time atm.