Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

[Mike Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org>]

On 4/2/2012 11:12 PM, Dale wrote:
> Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>
>> Actually, the initramfs finished without a single error: between
>>
>> [    1.962007] dracut: + source_conf /etc/conf.d
>>
>> and
>>
>> [    2.395576] dracut: Switching root
>>
>> there is not a single error. The initramfs did what it needed to do;
>> the user space failed *after* initramfs switched root.
>>
>> Did you recreated the initramfs after the kernel recompilation? 1st
>> rule of non-trivial initramfs: you need to recreate it everytime you
>> change kernels.
>>
>> Which partition is the LVM one? /home or /data? Either way, either
>> partition should not matter to boot the system correctly. We need to
>> see the errors *after* the initramfs switched root; maybe you can
>> delete /var/log/messages, reboot, and post it?
>>
>> Regards.
>
>
> So the init thingy is going to print all that stuff each time?  Or is
> that the debug stuff you had me add to the grub line?  Please say it is
> so.  It's one reason I checked my email.  I was counting and realized
> the debug stuff that was added may haver done all that.  Taking a deep
> breath helped tho.  ;-)  I still want my hands on that neck tho.  lol

It was the debug stuff; every line that look like

"dracut: + stuff here"

was debugging information; AFAICT dracut mounted /dev/sda3 
as root then it mounted the two other partitions it found.

But this could be a problem (from your other email):

root@fireball / # dracut -H -f /boot/init-thingy
E: Dracut module "lvm" cannot be found.
E: Dracut module "lvm" cannot be found.

dracut couldn't find it's lvm module, even though your USE 
flags are set correctly. Can you try re-emerging dracut with 
its current USE flags?

You should have a folder in /usr/lib/dracut/modules named 
'lvm' that has a 'module-setup.sh' script in it, plus 
probably some other support files, if everything got 
installed correctly.

--Mike