Ross Boylan wrote: ... > LESSONS > 1. Don't ever get in this situation. It's a mess. > 2. If you're planning on moving to new hardware, ensure your initrd is > generated with MODULES=most BEFORE the move. > 3. Just because initramfs.conf has MODULES=most doesn't mean that's > what you get. In my case, conf.d/driver-policy overrode it. > 4. Manually constructing or modifying an initrd is pretty delicate business. > 5. systemd seems to react very badly to a mount failure in fstab.
all good to know. :) i've not been in that bad a situation before. that last bit (#5) has caught plenty of people who had old fstabs and did not change the lines that were optional devices to "nofail". it did get me too when systemd was first coming through testing/unstable. i absolutely hate being dropped into a raw console or in the emergency mode because the fonts are usually too small for me to have much of a chance of reading them. > THANKS > To Pascal and songbird for their help. y.w., but to me it looks like you did all the heavy lifting here. :) glad you got it figured out. songbird