From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: using update-initramfs: how to get new mdadm.conf into the /boot? Or is it XFS? Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:48:16 -0500 Message-ID: <47AB7CA0.9010407@tmr.com> References: <47A77CC0.10807@pobox.com> <20080204210903.GD3959@baikonur.stro.at> <47A78949.7020803@pobox.com> <47AB7714.50608@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <47AB7714.50608@tmr.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bill Davidsen Cc: Moshe Yudkowsky , maximilian attems , linux raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids Bill Davidsen wrote: > 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. > Or you can get lucky and someone will have seen this before and hand you a solution... ;-) -- Bill Davidsen "Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over..." Otto von Bismark