[linux-lvm] Patch lvmcreate_initrd

[Heinz J. Mauelshagen]

On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 02:59:28PM +0200, Stefan Helfert wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> sorry if this is old stuff but I did not find any reference in the
> archive.
> 
> When trying to install a root partition with lvm and reiserfs on a
> notebook, I found that the lvmcreate_initrd script is building a
> unusable initrd:
> [initrd]./linuxrc needs /bin/mount and /bin/umount, but those won't be
> copied.

Yes, this is a known bug which is already fixed in my development tree.

> 
> System: SuSE 6.4, but I rechecked this against the lvm_0.8final.tgz.
> 
> With this patch, everything is working fine:
> (since my kernel as the SuSE standard kernel does have lvm included in
> the kernel, not as module, the script complains about the missing lvm.o.
> This could be detected, also...)
> 
> 
> Stefan
> 
> --- lvmcreate_initrd    Tue Feb 22 03:09:33 2000
> +++ lvmcreate_initrd.new        Sun Jun 25 10:56:44 2000
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
>  DEVRAM=/dev/ram1
>  INITRD=/boot/initrd.gz
>  INITRDSIZE=8192
> -INITRDFILES="/sbin/modprobe /sbin/vgchange /sbin/vgscan /bin/bash
> /bin/sh /bin/rm /sbin/insmod /sbin/modprobe /dev/*
> /lib/modules/${VERSION}/modules.dep /lib/modules/${VERSION}/block/lvm.o"
> +INITRDFILES="/sbin/modprobe /sbin/vgchange /sbin/vgscan /bin/bash
> /bin/sh /bin/rm /bin/mount /bin/umount /sbin/insmod /sbin/modprobe
> /dev/* /lib/modules/${VERSION}/modules.dep
> /lib/modules/${VERSION}/block/lvm.o"
>  TMP=/tmp/mnt.$$
> 
>  trap "
> -- 
> I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. 
> There's a knob called brightness, but it doesn't seem to work. 
>                                                      Gallagher

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Regards,
Heinz      -- The LVM guy --

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