[Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! <---- Instructions

[Charles A Edwards]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 09:59:27 +0100
Colin Guthrie wrote:

> > Booting with
> > rw rd.convertfs rd.break=pre-pivot
> > 
> > Using "exit" on 1st shell
> > 
> > (output given as follows)
> > 
> > exit
> > pre-pivot
> > 
> > dracut warning: Break before switch_root
> > dracut warning: Break before switch_root
> > 
> > Dropping to debug shell.
> > 
> > sh:0: can't access tty; job control off
> > switch_root:/#
> > 
> > (end output)
> > 
> > I type exit and the system continues booting.  
> 
> 
> So this looks really like the convertfs module is simply not included
> in your initrd.
> 
> Can you confirm that your grub entry is using the latest kernel and
> that the initrd used is the right one?

I use lilo.

[root at SuperSize ~]# uname -r
3.4.6-tmb-server-1.mga3
[root at SuperSize ~]# dracut -f -a convertfs
I: *** Including module: dash ***
I: *** Including module: i18n ***
I: *** Including module: rpmversion ***
I: *** Including module: convertfs ***
I: *** Including module: plymouth ***
I: *** Including module: kernel-modules ***
I: *** Including module: resume ***
I: *** Including module: rootfs-block ***
I: *** Including module: terminfo ***
I: *** Including module: udev-rules ***
I: Skipping udev rule: 50-udev.rules
I: Skipping udev rule: 95-late.rules
I: Skipping udev rule: 50-firmware.rules
I: *** Including module: usrmount ***
I: *** Including module: base ***
I: *** Including module: fs-lib ***
I: *** Including module: shutdown ***
I: Skipping program kexec as it cannot be found and is flagged to be
optional I: *** Including modules done ***
I: Wrote /boot/initrd-3.4.6-tmb-server-1.mga3.img:
I: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7032269 Jul 22
05:02 /boot/initrd-3.4.6-tmb-server-1.mga3.img

[root at SuperSize ~]# lsinitrd | grep convertfs
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          304 Feb 24 09:38
lib/dracut/hooks/pre-pivot/99do-convertfs.sh
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         8031 Jul 21 12:19 usr/bin/convertfs



reboot system

Same occurs

exit
pre-pivot

dracut warning: Break before switch_root
dracut warning: Break before switch_root

Dropping to debug shell.

sh:0: can't access tty; job control off
switch_root:/#
 

[root at SuperSize ~]# uname -r
3.4.6-tmb-server-1.mga3

[root at SuperSize ~]# lsinitrd | grep convertfs
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          304 Feb 24 09:38
lib/dracut/hooks/pre-pivot/99do-convertfs.sh
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         8031 Jul 21 12:19 usr/bin/convertfs


    Charles


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