Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

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

Am 03.05.2014 18:51, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
> 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)

An older kernel (3.13.4) boots OK ... the newer ones are screwed up
(their initramfs) ...

Back to the start.

As I don't boot from LVM or mdadm-raid I consider to not need any
"DRACUT_MODULES=" in /etc/portage/make.conf, right?

What do you guys have in /etc/dracut.conf ?

Canek, I use your kerninst-tool ...

And there are settings in /etc/default/grub as well ... I somehow get
the feeling that there are way too much bells and whistles in the game.

I want to clean up as much as possible so that this more or less wasted
day at least makes some sense in the end.

Thanks all, Stefan