Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

["Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@xunil.at>]

Am 03.05.2014 18:40, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
> Am 03.05.2014 15:57, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
>> Am 03.05.2014 15:50, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:
>>> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:52 AM, J. Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> If you boot without those in fstab, then do the mdadm and lvm steps manually,
>>>> do you then have it " working "?
>>>> If yes, I would leave it for now and wait for Canek to come online in a few
>>>> hours. (Mexico should be awake at around 4 or 5pm I think)
>>>>
>>>> He knows systemd and dracut better then most people on here.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the confidence, but I don't think I will be able to help
>>> very much: I'm still running systemd 208. I defended my PhD thesis
>>> last week, and I *really* wanted to avoid a situation similar to the
>>> one Stefan is having, so I haven't updated any of my systems on weeks.
>>
>> Yep. Clever decision ;-)
>>
>> I could downgrade to 208 as well, this mainly only removes
>> systemd-networkd from my box which was nice to have .. but anyway.
>>
>> systemd-208 would also allow me to downgrade dracut, and I assume these
>> 2 steps would definitely change something.
>>
>> Right now I do *backups* and take a break ... I currently know how to
>> get the box up and working manually so this somehow takes the bigger
>> stress out of the game. Resetting the box dozens of times does thrill me
>> a bit with RAIDs and stuff.
>>
>> I will keep the list informed if I find out something new.
> 
> back on systemd 208-r3
> 
> I somehow get lost more and more ...
> 
> fstab with uuids and labels only now
> 
> Dracut wants to resume from the swap-partition somehow ... parameter
> "noresume" helps
> 
> Grub2 still has "root=/dev/sda" in its line and I don't get where that
> comes from

correction, it was "sda1" and my fault in /etc/default/grub (hiding UUIDs)