Re: [ANNOUNCE] dracut 034

[Harald Hoyer <harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On 10/25/2013 01:22 PM, EatDirt wrote:
> On 08/10/13 12:23, Harald Hoyer wrote:
>> Here comes a new dracut version. Thanks to all who have contributed to this
>> release.
> 
> Hi guys,
> sorry if this is not the right place to post, but we have some problems with mga
> distributed dracut-034
> 
> For users having two partitions / and /usr; specified in their /etc/fstab,
> without including systemd module, dracut does not automatically includes the
> necessary usrmount module.
> 
> Without usrmount, the initrd yields a kernel panics at boot time. I naively
> though that dracut would automatically take care of the partitions specified in
> /etc/fstab and therefore "sees" that without systemd added, usrmount must be
> present.
> 
> Do you think it is a dracut bug, or we should take care of this at the "distro"
> packaging level?
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> cheers,
> chris.
> 
> 
> PS: the mga full bug report is there (check the last posts):
> 
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11292
> 

Hmmm, the usrmount module is automatically included, if /sbin/init is on /usr.
If it is not on /usr, normally /sbin/init can mount /usr via fstab.