From: maurice <mhilarius@gmail.com>
To: Jim Schatzman <james.schatzman@futurelabusa.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Odd booting problem
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:12:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E93A62B.3070509@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111010171936.E9DF8581FD6@mail.futurelabusa.com>
On 10/10/2011 11:19 AM, Jim Schatzman wrote:
> Maurice-
>
> I am not an expert, but I have observed that initrd/initramfs/dracut is fairly stupid, and can't handle what would seem like benign changes to the operating evironment. For example, if you install a linux kernel on a system where the / filesystem is on an LVM volume, then you move the / filesystem to a raw partition, change the grub boot commands and /etc/fstab appropriately, initrd/initramfs still fails with an "/bin/lvm exited abnormally with error 5" message. It does not seem to me that there is any reason that initrd/initramfs should care what return code lvm returns as long as it can mount the / filesystem. It also messes about with raids, generally unnecessarily.
> ..
>
> Good luck!
>
> Jim
>
Thanks Jim,
I will try some of your suggestions.
--
Cheers,
Maurice Hilarius
eMail: /mhilarius@gmail.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-11 2:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-07 23:33 Odd booting problem maurice
2011-10-10 16:02 ` maurice
2011-10-10 17:19 ` Jim Schatzman
2011-10-11 2:12 ` maurice [this message]
2011-10-10 18:11 ` Michal Soltys
2011-10-12 20:55 ` maurice
2011-10-12 22:41 ` Michal Soltys
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