On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 01:05:31 -0500, Thomas Backlund <t...@mageia.org> wrote:
Fyi. On one of my cauldron installs, I have /usr in a lvm logical volume. In order to get this to be bootable, I modified /etc/dracut.conf to have add_drivers+="dm_mod dm_crypt" and install_items+=(/bin/grep /lib/libpcre.so.0.0.1 /lib/libpcre.so.0 /lib/libdevmapper-event.so.1.02 /lib/libdevmapper.so.1.02 /lib/libreadline.so.6 /lib/libncurses.so.5 /sbin/lvm /lib/modules/3.1.4-server-1.mga2/kernel/drivers/md/dm-crypt.ko.gz /lib/modules/3.1.4-server-1.mga2/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mod.ko.gz /sbin/dmsetup /sbin/lsmod ) I modified /usr/share/dracut/modules.d/98usrmount/mount-usr.sh to have ... #!/bin/sh # -*- mode: shell-script; indent-tabs-mode: nil; sh-basic-offset: 4; -*- # ex: ts=8 sw=4 sts=4 et filetype=sh type info >/dev/null 2>&1 || . /lib/dracut-lib.sh type fsck_single >/dev/null 2>&1 || . /lib/fs-lib.sh mount_usr() { local _dev _mp _fs _opts _rest _fs_found _ret _mount_point if ! __fgrep "device-mapper" /proc/devices >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then modprobe dm-mod >/dev/null 2>&1 fi /sbin/lvm vgchange -a y --sysinit fsck_mount() ( # check, if we have to mount the filesystem _fs_found="" while read _dev _mp _fs _opts _rest; do if [ "$_mp" = "/$_mount_point" ]; then echo "$_dev $NEWROOT/$_mp $_fs ${_opts} $_rest" _fs_found="1" break fi done < "$NEWROOT/etc/fstab" >> /etc/fstab if [ "x$_fs_found" != "x" ]; then # we have to mount it fsck_single "$_dev" "$_fs" _ret=$? echo $_ret >/run/initramfs/$_mount_point-fsck if [ $_ret -ne 255 ]; then info "Mounting /$_mount_point" mount "$NEWROOT/$_mount_point" 2>&1 | vinfo fi fi ) _mount_point="usr"; fsck_mount _mount_point="var"; fsck_mount _mount_point="var/mnt"; fsck_mount _mount_point="opt"; fsck_mount _mount_point="tmp"; fsck_mount _mount_point="home"; fsck_mount } mount_usr I initially only had the /usr being mounted, but found that when it got around to trying to mount the next lv, it would report that the mount timed out due to a dependency failure, but with no indication of why. I ended up modifying the script to mount all of my lvm partitions, in the initramfs, to get it to work. Regards, Dave Hodgins