Re: Scan not being performed properly on boot

2014-08-04 Thread Peter Roberts
On 04/08/2014 04:31, Russell Coker wrote: What is GRUB (or your boot loader) giving as parameters to the kernel? What error messages appear on screen? Sometimes it's helpful to photograph the screen and put the picture on a web server to help people diagnose the problem. Here a screenshot htt

Re: Scan not being performed properly on boot

2014-08-04 Thread Chris Samuel
On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 01:31:42 PM Russell Coker wrote: > Is BTRFS supported in that version of Ubuntu? Out of the box a fresh 14.04 install onto btrfs worked fine for me on two different sets of hardware. 13.10 the same on a third piece of hardware. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.

Re: Scan not being performed properly on boot

2014-08-03 Thread Duncan
George Mitchell posted on Sun, 03 Aug 2014 21:00:19 -0700 as excerpted: >>> I cannot mount my root with anything other than an explicit /dev/sdx >>> reference until I manually run a scan. Then UUID etc all work. I've >> That sounds like a problem with the Ubuntu initrd, probably filing an >> Ubunt

Re: Scan not being performed properly on boot

2014-08-03 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 3 Aug 2014 21:34:29 George Mitchell wrote: > I see what you are saying. Its a hack. But I suspect that most of the > distros are not yet accommodating btrfs with their standard mkinitrd > process. At this point modifying grub2 config does solve the problem. > If you know a reasonably

Re: Scan not being performed properly on boot

2014-08-03 Thread George Mitchell
On 08/03/2014 09:14 PM, Russell Coker wrote: On Sun, 3 Aug 2014 21:00:19 George Mitchell wrote: But just changing your boot configuration to use /dev/sdx is probably the best option. Assuming you are booting with grub2, you will need to use /dev/sdx in the grub2 configuration file. This is kno

Re: Scan not being performed properly on boot

2014-08-03 Thread George Mitchell
On 08/03/2014 09:14 PM, Russell Coker wrote: On Sun, 3 Aug 2014 21:00:19 George Mitchell wrote: But just changing your boot configuration to use /dev/sdx is probably the best option. Assuming you are booting with grub2, you will need to use /dev/sdx in the grub2 configuration file. This is kno

Re: Scan not being performed properly on boot

2014-08-03 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 3 Aug 2014 21:00:19 George Mitchell wrote: > > But just changing your boot configuration to use /dev/sdx is probably the > > best option. > > Assuming you are booting with grub2, you will need to use /dev/sdx in > the grub2 configuration file. This is known issue with grub2. Example > f

Re: Scan not being performed properly on boot

2014-08-03 Thread George Mitchell
On 08/03/2014 08:31 PM, Russell Coker wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 04:02:53 Peter Roberts wrote: I've just recently started testing btrfs on my server but after just 24 hours problems have started. I get booted to a busybox prompt user ubuntu 14.04. I have a multi device FS setup and I can't say fo

Re: Scan not being performed properly on boot

2014-08-03 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 04:02:53 Peter Roberts wrote: > I've just recently started testing btrfs on my server but after just 24 > hours problems have started. I get booted to a busybox prompt user > ubuntu 14.04. I have a multi device FS setup and I can't say for sure if > it managed to boot initiall