dracut and ubuntu 8.10

[Seewer Philippe <philippe.seewer-omB+W0Dpw2o@public.gmane.org>]

Hello all

Today I actually just wanted to give Victor Lowther's network patches a go and see how far they can go. But first I thought why not try and get dracut running on my own system. Well, it didn't go straightforward, hence my series of patches this day. (Sorry Victor, testing network stuff will have to wait until next Friday)

But at last: success! Dracut now boots my notebook!

Here's how:

0) Get dracut ;-)

1) Apply the patches I sent today

2) Depending on whether or not you need cryptsetup and/or lvm chmod -x 90crypt.sh and/or 90lvm.sh inside dracut/modules

3) Apply the patch below to get the correct ubuntu udev stuff

4) If you're on a x86-64 system (ubuntu amd64 install) make sure /lib64 does point to just 'lib' not '/lib':

$ sudo bash
$ cd /
$ rm /lib64
$ /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /bin/ln -s lib lib64

5) create /etc/dracut.conf and add the required drivers for your root-disk. And don't forget to add sd_mod (and sg just out of paranoia). Otherwise there's no disks at all.

6) Run dracut, build your image, add it to grub, reboot and hopefully enjoy! (Yes, there's no splash screen etc. But hey! It boots!)

Regards,
Philippe

---
 modules/95udev-rules.sh |   34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/modules/95udev-rules.sh b/modules/95udev-rules.sh
index 5951e18..f4067dd 100755
--- a/modules/95udev-rules.sh
+++ b/modules/95udev-rules.sh
@@ -1,11 +1,25 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-# FIXME: would be nice if we didn't have to know which rules to grab....
-# ultimately, /lib/initramfs/rules.d or somesuch which includes links/copies
-# of the rules we want so that we just copy those in would be best
-mkdir -p "$initdir/lib/udev/rules.d"
-#/lib/udev/console_*
-dracut_install udevd udevadm /lib/udev/*_id 
-inst_rules /lib/udev/rules.d/10-console* /lib/udev/rules.d/40-redhat* \
-    /lib/udev/rules.d/50* /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules \
-    /lib/udev/rules.d/61*edd* /lib/udev/rules.d/64* /lib/udev/rules.d/80* \
-    /lib/udev/rules.d/95*
\ No newline at end of file
+# udev rules for ubuntu 8.10
+# content from /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/udev
+mkdir -p "$initdir/etc/udev/rules.d"
+mkdir -p "$initdir/var/run"
+
+dracut_install udevd udevadm pkill
+dracut_install /etc/udev/udev.conf
+
+for rules in 05-options.rules 20-names.rules 40-basic-permissions.rules 60-persistent-storage.rules 61-persistent-storage-edd.rules 80-programs.rules 90-modprobe.rules 95-udev-late.rules; do
+    dracut_install /etc/udev/rules.d/$rules 
+done
+
+dracut_install /lib/udev/dvb_device_name 
+dracut_install /lib/udev/usb_device_name 
+dracut_install /lib/udev/ata_id 
+dracut_install /lib/udev/usb_id 
+dracut_install /lib/udev/vol_id 
+dracut_install /lib/udev/scsi_id 
+dracut_install /lib/udev/path_id 
+dracut_install /lib/udev/edd_id 
+dracut_install /lib/udev/firmware_helper 
+dracut_install /lib/udev/ide_media 
+dracut_install /lib/udev/vio_type 
+dracut_install /lib/udev/watershed 
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