Re: using update-initramfs: how to get new mdadm.conf into the /boot? Or is it XFS?

[Moshe Yudkowsky <moshe@pobox.com>]

I wrote:

> Now it's failed in a different section and complains that it can't find 
> /sbin/init. I'm at the (initramfs) prompt, which I don't ever recall 
> seeing before. I can't  mount /dev/md/root on any mount points ("invalid 
> arguments" even though I'm not supplying any). I've checked /dev/md/root 
> and it does work as expected when I try mounting it while in my 
> emergency partition, and it does contain /sbin/init and the other files 
> and mount points for /var, /boot, /tmp, etc.
> 
> So this leads me to the question of why /sbin isn't being seen. /sbin is 
> on the device /dev/md/root, and /etc/fstab specifically mounts it at /. 
>  I would think /boot would look at an internal copy of /etc/fstab. Is 
> this another side effect of using /boot on its own partition?

The answer: I managed to make a mistake in the configuration of grub, in 
  /boot/grub/menu.lst. I'd changed root= from /dev/md/root to 
/dev/md/boot -- but I really need to include the *root* location, which 
does not change, vs. the boot location, which is not relevant.

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