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| 10:13.55 | bittin | morning |
| 10:16.57 | Nalle_ | Hey bittin |
| 10:17.42 | bittin | whats up? |
| 10:21.39 | Nalle_ | Well, at work, drinking some tea and listening to trance music and fighting with some code :) |
| 10:22.13 | bittin | ah |
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| 17:41.16 | grey_gandalf | hi all |
| 17:41.25 | grey_gandalf | somebody alive except pahartik ? |
| 17:41.27 | grey_gandalf | pahartik: hi |
| 17:43.28 | grey_gandalf | I wonder if the root UUID is somehow encoded in the initrd image ? I don't know where else it can coem from if yaboot.conf is correct |
| 17:43.36 | grey_gandalf | fstab? |
| 17:43.38 | grey_gandalf | hmm! |
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| 17:52.28 | simonlnu | no, it isn't. |
| 17:52.48 | simonlnu | it's passed to the kernel, not the initrd |
| 17:53.33 | simonlnu | i would hardcode the device/partition number into yaboot.conf |
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| 17:53.55 | simonlnu | like say your rootfs is at /dev/sda8 or such, you put that |
| 17:54.46 | simonlnu | this is what a blue&white i have has in its config |
| 17:54.50 | simonlnu | boot=/dev/sda2 |
| 17:54.50 | simonlnu | ofboot=/pci@80000000/pci-bridge@d/pci-ata@1/@0/disk@0:2 |
| 17:54.51 | simonlnu | device=/pci@80000000/pci-bridge@d/pci-ata@1/@0/disk@0: |
| 17:54.51 | simonlnu | partition=3 |
| 17:54.51 | simonlnu | root=/dev/sda3 |
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| 17:55.42 | grey_gandalf | yep. I have the porblem that I did an upgrade and the box doesn't boot anymore. I think the new kernel is borked |
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| 17:55.52 | grey_gandalf | pahartik gave mme his 2.6 series with initrd image |
| 17:56.09 | grey_gandalf | I installed it. I changed yaboot so that it contains /dev/hda3 instead of UUIDs |
| 17:56.19 | grey_gandalf | I changed /etc/fstab |
| 17:56.33 | grey_gandalf | yet, on boot, it complains it can't mount the root and shows a by-uuid reference |
| 17:56.38 | grey_gandalf | (which is wrong, btw) |
| 17:57.27 | simonlnu | so why haven't you put say "Linux root=/dev/sda3" at the yaboot prompt? |
| 17:57.39 | simonlnu | hit enter, and blam, you're in |
| 17:58.52 | grey_gandalf | no, I do that and it gets ignored |
| 17:59.01 | grey_gandalf | also, I fixed the yaboot.conf file using the rescue cd |
| 17:59.19 | grey_gandalf | i'm really puzzled |
| 17:59.22 | pahartik | grey_gandalf: My root on that host is... '/dev/mapper/vulpine_storage-root: LABEL="root" UUID="a627747f-3652-454f-9ec8-ee26e948dd22" TYPE="ext4"'... If UUID matches that, it is from "initrd" |
| 17:59.40 | grey_gandalf | brb, I'll check |
| 17:59.59 | simonlnu | it shouldn't be hardcoded into it though. if it is, that's a very stupid thing to do |
| 18:00.27 | simonlnu | and none of our faults except maybe whomever wrote it into update-initramfs |
| 18:03.47 | pahartik | simonlnu: I gave copies of files from "/boot/" required to boot, since grey_gandalf does not have functional "/boot/"... |
| 18:06.07 | simonlnu | if you wanna check it, you can unpack it somewhere. zcat foo.img | cpio -i or similar |
| 18:06.12 | pahartik | simonlnu: However, those apparently would only work if one maneuvers manually through "initrd shell" or modifies that copy of "initrd" |
| 18:22.10 | grey_gandalf | I don't know how to maneouver or manipulate initrd. I hate it |
| 18:22.30 | grey_gandalf | I use it only on debian. On gentoo I asbsolutely do not use it. I think it is inconvenient and useless |
| 18:23.47 | pahartik | grey_gandalf: Then you probably need to build custom kernel image that works without "initrd", that is relatively simple |
| 18:24.56 | grey_gandalf | anyayu, it has a different UUID |
| 18:25.04 | pahartik | grey_gandalf: I always used kernel images that had no "initrd", until starting to use RAID, LUKS and LVM |
| 18:25.45 | grey_gandalf | efb528b6-66b6-4d6f-8292-7250fcd0897b |
| 18:27.52 | pahartik | grey_gandalf: On my "Apple iMac G4" that is '/dev/sda7: UUID="efb528b6-66b6-4d6f-8292-7250fcd0897b" TYPE="crypto_LUKS"' |
| 18:28.32 | grey_gandalf | so it is yours!!! |
| 18:28.45 | grey_gandalf | initrd has it hardcoded! what a piece of crap! |
| 18:29.00 | grey_gandalf | is that image mountable? changeable? |
| 18:29.22 | grey_gandalf | if I can change it to my UUID or even better to hda3 |
| 18:29.39 | pahartik | grey_gandalf: "swap" is on that encrypted block device |
| 18:30.02 | grey_gandalf | I can finally boot the box again and we can try to understand why the new kernel doesn't recognize my disks |
| 18:30.14 | grey_gandalf | swap? hmm so this thing doesn't continue without swap? |
| 18:30.23 | grey_gandalf | can I specify it too on the command-line? |
| 18:30.50 | pahartik | grey_gandalf: It was made outside RAID and LVM just for testing fun |
| 18:33.44 | grey_gandalf | we need to find a way to manipulate the image or bypass its setting. as simonlnu says, coding it inside there is somehwo inconvenient |
| 18:33.48 | grey_gandalf | gotta go, bbiab |
| 18:33.53 | pahartik | grey_gandalf: "swap" is on "/dev/dm-1", "/dev/dm-1" is encrypted on "/dev/sda7" |
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| 21:07.13 | grey_gandalf | pahartik: I tried passing swap=/dev/hda4 as a kernel parameter, but it did not help |
| 21:07.53 | grey_gandalf | I start to be really at loss! |
| 21:08.11 | grey_gandalf | can I extract and reconstruct the init image perhaps? |
| 21:11.05 | pahartik | grey_gandalf: Yes |
| 21:11.56 | grey_gandalf | I bet that it must have a swap parameter or so |
| 21:12.17 | grey_gandalf | well, perhaps it can be done when you drop in initramfs? |
| 21:26.18 | grey_gandalf | pahartik: could you do it for me? |
| 21:26.27 | grey_gandalf | ot do you think I can do it on any otherr host computer like macosx or so? |
| 21:54.30 | grey_gandalf | pahartik: do you still have your /lib/modules/2.6.35-5 ? |
| 21:54.39 | grey_gandalf | with that I could try to update-initramfs |