Important: dmraid boot finally fixed, PLEASE include before FC-6

David Nielsen david at lovesunix.net
Mon Aug 21 08:15:51 UTC 2006


lør, 19 08 2006 kl. 22:21 +0200, skrev Hans de Goede:
> 
> Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > Goede, J.W.R. de schrieb:
> > 
> >> mkinitrd includes
> >>    the usb-storage driver in the initrd, where it
> >> shouldn't.
> > 
> > So, reading the bug report, the long and short of it is that
> > dmraid does not find it's disks because they are not named sda
> > and sdb?
> > 
> 
> Its not dmraid, but the dm setup code in initrd (nash) that cannot find
> the disks, but yes that is part of the problem. Notice that the disks
> are hardcoded as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb in the initrd nash init script.

This also affects the updated kernel issued for FC5, as a matter of fact
I'm only able to boot the original kernel from FC5 even on Development,
luckily I kept a copy.

Issuing an update to FC5 is therefore of great importance as well.

- David Nielsen




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