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

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Moshe Yudkowsky wrote:
> maximilian attems wrote:
>
>> error 15 is an *grub* error.
>>
>> grub is known for it's dislike of xfs, so with this whole setup use ext3
>> rerun grub-install and you should be fine.
>
> I should mention that something *did* change. When attempting to use 
> XFS, grub would give me a note about "18 partitions used" (I forget 
> the exact language). This was different than I'd remembered; when I 
> switched back to using reiserfs, grub reports using 19 partitions.
>
> So there's something definitely interesting about XFS and booting.
>
> As an additional note, if I use the grub boot-time commands to edit 
> root to read, e.g., root=/dev/sda2 or root=/dev/sdb2, I get the same 
> Error 15 error message.
>
> It may be that grub is complaining about grub and resiserfs, but I 
> suspect that it has a true complain about the file system and what's 
> on the partitions.
>
I think you have two choices, convert /boot to ext2 and be sure you are 
going down the best-tested code path, or fight and debug, read code, 
learn grub source, play with the init parts of the boot sequence, and 
then convert /boot to ext2 anyway. No matter how "better" something else 
might be, /boot has nothing I use except at boot, I don't need features 
or performance, I just want it to work.

Unless you are so frustrated you have entered "I am going to make this 
*work* if it takes forever" mode, I would try the easy solution first. 
Just my take on it.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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