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

[Anssi Hannula]

On 22.10.2011 16:05, Colin Guthrie 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'.

Didn't look at this issue specifically, but automatically loaded modules
should be loaded in the order specified in
/lib/modules/foo/modules.order (which I think is used by depmod to
generate the dep entries in the correct order for modprobe), which
correctly contains pata_acpi after pata_via.

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Anssi Hannula