On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 19:13, Andrew Reid<rei...@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> On Monday 13 July 2009 21:13:16 Kelly Clowers wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 17:52, Kelly Clowers<kelly.clow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 16:38, Andrew Reid<rei...@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
>
>> >> The other way to investigate the initramfs, incidentally,
>> >> is to just unpack it somehwere -- it's a cpio archive, you
>> >> can google for instructions.
>> >
>> > Also good to know.
>>
>> Going to try this now, since break= does not seem to work for
>> some reason...
>
> That strikes me as an Important Clue, although I'm not
> sure what to make of it. Are you *sure* you're running an
> initramfs? ("Is it plugged in?") Does your bootloader know
> you want an initramfs? How did you get the bootloader on
> to the disk? It's not part of the filesystem, so it didn't
> come on with the restore-from-backup unless you used "dd"
> to image it. For grub, you have to do a "grub-install"
> incantation.
>
> Anyways, assuming you *are* using an initramfs, there are
> other predefined breakpoints -- they are:
> top, modules, premount, mount, bottom, init.
>
> You might try "break=top", that drops into the busybox shell
> immediately after the initrd is unpacked, before running any
> scripts at all. It's also before modules are loaded, so it
> wouldn't be a huge surprise if the disks are missing at that
> point, but at least you could check the integrity if your
> initramfs environment, and run some stuff manually, maybe.
>
> "modules" breaks before any modules are loaded.
>
> "premount" is the default, and it'll break here if you
> just provide a "break" kernel argument, with no value.
>
> Posting to the list, because this info about initramfs
> breakpoints should be in more places.
I may try the break stuff again later, just to see what is
what, for now I am just happy to have a working system.
Thanks,
Kelly Clowers
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