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

[Thomas Backlund]

22.07.2012 14:23, Charles A Edwards skrev:
> On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 10:39:12 +0100
> Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 
>> That's weird.
>>
>> When in the shell can you (triple) check that the path
>> usr/bin/convertfs is really there in the initrd (just type "ls
>> usr/bin/convertfs" in the first shell)
>>
>> As you use lilo have you run whatever command you have to run to
>> update it before rebooting? I forget what it is - maybe just "lilo"?
> 
> 
> As the name of the image did not change and the convertfs was added 
> at the boot prompt rather than as an append to lilo it I did not run
> "lilo".
> 
> But lilo was the issue.
> I had tried with all the kernels I had installed with no success,
> switched to grub using the same command at the boot prompt and the fs
> converted nicely.
> 
> Will be interesting to see if any others using lilo have this problem
> or if I am just "lucky".
> 

Nope. everyone using lilo will hit it as every time you recreate initrd,
lilo must be re-run to be mapped/used correctly...

That's the "downside" of using lilo...

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Thomas