Re: dracut + LUKS = no boot? (now fine, issues a month ago)

2024-08-22 Thread George N. White III
On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 9:33 AM User of Fedoras via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Hi, > I had changed from Fedora to openSUSE due to an error on LUKS during > boot (it would not see the correct devices, dracut would timeout). I > could boot using an older k

Re: dracut + LUKS = no boot? (now fine, issues a month ago)

2024-08-22 Thread George N. White III
On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 9:43 AM Roger Heflin wrote: > I don't know specifically on this bug. But the 2 common mistakes fall > into some piece failing and causing dracut to not properly detect what > modules the boot device needs to use. And when that happens dracut > times out

Re: dracut + LUKS = no boot? (now fine, issues a month ago)

2024-08-20 Thread User of Fedoras via users
bottom-posting, somewhat manually. On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 1:43 PM Roger Heflin wrote: > > I don't know specifically on this bug. But the 2 common mistakes fall > into some piece failing and causing dracut to not properly detect what > modules the boot device needs to us

Re: dracut + LUKS = no boot? (now fine, issues a month ago)

2024-08-18 Thread Roger Heflin
I don't know specifically on this bug. But the 2 common mistakes fall into some piece failing and causing dracut to not properly detect what modules the boot device needs to use. And when that happens dracut times out looking for root. I have also seen bugs where the necessary module need

dracut + LUKS = no boot? (now fine, issues a month ago)

2024-08-18 Thread User of Fedoras via users
Hi, I had changed from Fedora to openSUSE due to an error on LUKS during boot (it would not see the correct devices, dracut would timeout). I could boot using an older kernel but couldn't figure out what the issue was/hadn't had the patience. Yesterday it happened on openSUSE and, in tha

Re: More fun with grub and dracut

2024-07-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2024-07-30 at 14:49 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > Tried that and this time it did get the correct UUID in the boot > > command line (verified from the grub menu). However the boot failed > > with some 'not found' errors. I can't completely discount the > > possibility of some errors in copy

Re: More fun with grub and dracut

2024-07-30 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/30/24 2:45 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2024-07-30 at 14:13 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: A logical place to look is in /etc/dracut.d. The manpage for dracut.cmdline says you can specify a "root=UUID=..." parameter, but not where you put it ('dracut root=...

Re: More fun with grub and dracut

2024-07-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2024-07-30 at 14:13 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > A logical place to look is in /etc/dracut.d. The manpage for > > dracut.cmdline says you can specify a "root=UUID=..." parameter, > > but > > not where you put it ('dracut root=...' and 'd

Re: More fun with grub and dracut

2024-07-30 Thread Samuel Sieb
7;ll eventually change it, but shouldn't affect root). Not sure what to do other than manually editing the loader entry. I think you have to edit the loader entries.  They won't be regenerated. Nope, didn't work. I edited the current entry, reran grub2-mkconfig etc. and dracut.

Re: More fun with grub and dracut

2024-07-30 Thread Go Canes
The idea is to edit the files to get the system booted correctly, and then use grub2-mkconfig and dracut to re-auto-generate the files. But I agree the manual editing is a last resort. -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: More fun with grub and dracut

2024-07-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
g the loader entry. > > I think you have to edit the loader entries.  They won't be > regenerated. > Nope, didn't work. I edited the current entry, reran grub2-mkconfig etc. and dracut. I checked the entries and they are regenerated from somewhere with the changes reverted, so

Re: More fun with grub and dracut

2024-07-30 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/30/24 5:48 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: The loader entry is still pointing to the SSD: # cat /boot/loader/entries/63f58eeb1e8640c79ad45bdc9261a2bb-6.9.11-200.fc40.x86_64.conf title Fedora Linux (6.9.11-200.fc40.x86_64) 40 (KDE Plasma) version 6.9.11-200.fc40.x86_64 linux /vmlinuz-6.9.11-

Re: More fun with grub and dracut

2024-07-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
rebuild initramfs.  FWIW, I have never > needed to use --fstab with dracut. I'd definitely not edit the grub.cfg files directly. They both have a commentary saying they are autogenerated. I assume /etc/kernel/cmdline is also autogenerated (rpm says it doesn't belong to any package). How

Re: More fun with grub and dracut

2024-07-30 Thread Go Canes
/boot/grub2/grub.cfg, /etc/kernel/cmdline, and /etc/fstab to make sure everything is using the correct UUIDs, then get everything booted (manually addressing issues as required), and then rebuild initramfs. FWIW, I have never needed to use --fstab

More fun with grub and dracut

2024-07-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
*but* root is still being mounted from the SDD. I've run "dracut --fstab --force" (which supposedly should generate an initramd with root on the NVMe) and "grub2-mkconfig; grub2-install" but it makes no difference. The fstab does have the correct root line pointing to the

Re: This OS version ... dracut (Init ramfs) is past its end-of-support date

2024-05-20 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 09:42:46PM GMT, Barry Scott wrote: > > > > On 19 May 2024, at 15:58, Frédéric wrote: > > > > Is it because F38 is past end of support or is it just related to dracut? > > You can query the EOL date like this: > > $ host

Re: This OS version ... dracut (Init ramfs) is past its end-of-support date

2024-05-19 Thread Barry Scott
> On 19 May 2024, at 15:58, Frédéric wrote: > > Is it because F38 is past end of support or is it just related to dracut? You can query the EOL date like this: $ hostnamectl Static hostname: armf38.chelsea.private Icon name: computer-vm Chassis: vm 🖴

Re: This OS version ... dracut (Init ramfs) is past its end-of-support date

2024-05-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2024-05-19 at 16:58 +0200, Frédéric wrote: > Hi, > > I get this strange message when I boot: > [ ↑↑ ] This OS version (Fedora Linux 38 (Thirty Eight) > dracut-059-5.fc38 (Init ramfs)) is past its end-of-support date > (2024-05-14). > > Is it because F38 is past

This OS version ... dracut (Init ramfs) is past its end-of-support date

2024-05-19 Thread Frédéric
Hi, I get this strange message when I boot: [ ↑↑ ] This OS version (Fedora Linux 38 (Thirty Eight) dracut-059-5.fc38 (Init ramfs)) is past its end-of-support date (2024-05-14). Is it because F38 is past end of support or is it just related to dracut? Thanks

Re: dracut not including udev rules in initramfs

2022-08-06 Thread stan via users
On Sat, 6 Aug 2022 10:59:06 -0500 Ian Pilcher wrote: > Anyone know the trick to getting dracut to include the udev rules in > /etc/udev/rules.d in the initramfs that it builds? > > I'm sure that there's a way to include a specific file, but it really > seems like t

dracut not including udev rules in initramfs

2022-08-06 Thread Ian Pilcher
Anyone know the trick to getting dracut to include the udev rules in /etc/udev/rules.d in the initramfs that it builds? I'm sure that there's a way to include a specific file, but it really seems like there ought to be a way to include all of the udev rules. (Frankly, it seems like tha

Re: Network boot fails in dracut-initqueue due to nm-online wrongly pretend that the network is connected

2022-07-09 Thread Barry
> On 9 Jul 2022, at 06:49, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: > >  > Hi. > > On Thu, 07 Jul 2022 17:16:00 +0100 Barry wrote: > >>> I wonder if there is a single case where nm-online is useful :-( > >> Yes there are use cases where this is needed. >> Some times network is need to complete boot

Re: Network boot fails in dracut-initqueue due to nm-online wrongly pretend that the network is connected

2022-07-08 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi. On Thu, 07 Jul 2022 17:16:00 +0100 Barry wrote: >> I wonder if there is a single case where nm-online is useful :-( > Yes there are use cases where this is needed. > Some times network is need to complete boot in I tire before switching the > the main disk. Of course, but to be clearer: do

Re: Network boot fails in dracut-initqueue due to nm-online wrongly pretend that the network is connected

2022-07-07 Thread Barry
> On 6 Jul 2022, at 11:52, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: > >  > Hi. > > For information, I made this buzilla this morning: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2104398 > > (I did similar for Fedora-34). > > I wonder if there is a single case where nm-online is useful :-( Ye

Network boot fails in dracut-initqueue due to nm-online wrongly pretend that the network is connected

2022-07-06 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi. For information, I made this buzilla this morning: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2104398 (I did similar for Fedora-34). I wonder if there is a single case where nm-online is useful :-( -- francis ___ users mailing list -- users@

/var/tmp/dracut

2022-01-13 Thread Frank Elsner via users
Hi Experts, how much space should you reserve for /var/tmp/dracut when upgrading Fedora? Background: My upgrade from Fedora 34 to Fedora 35 failed due to insufficent space on /var in the way that reboot failed due to missing initramfs-*. I could recover but at first I was shocked. Stay

Re: dracut error on upgrade to kernel 5.10.11

2021-02-02 Thread sixpack13
> On 2/1/21 3:27 PM, sixpack13 wrote: > ... > > As it does appear that you are posting from HyperKitty given the header > someone else showed and the lack of quote headers in the emails, did you > happen to enter a last name somewhere and not a first name? That could > possibly explain the ex

Re: dracut error on upgrade to kernel 5.10.11

2021-02-02 Thread Frank Elsner via users
On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 12:59:56 -0500 sean darcy wrote: > Running scriptlet: kernel-core-5.10.11-200.fc33.x86_64 > 174/174 > dracut-install: No SOURCE argument given > Usage: dracut-install -D DESTROOTDIR [-r SYSROOTDIR] [OPTION]... -a >

Re: dracut error on upgrade to kernel 5.10.11

2021-02-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2/1/21 3:27 PM, sixpack13 wrote: On 2/1/21 3:02 PM, sixpack13 wrote: Yes, but I don't see why that's a problem: ... the problem is one is complaining, but I can't do anything against that spaces. there are none in my profile Did they give a reason for the complaint? There's nothing wrong

Re: dracut error on upgrade to kernel 5.10.11

2021-02-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/02/2021 08:39, Tim via users wrote: If you're getting extra spaces where they're not expected, that could be coming from your mail client, check how you've entered your name and address. Or it could be coming from a profile setting on the mailing list. Headers indicate From: " sixp

Re: dracut error on upgrade to kernel 5.10.11

2021-02-01 Thread Tim via users
" sixpack13" wrote: > confusing > I've checked that in my profil: no spaces, nowhere > > thanks for quick response(s) ! I see them, too. I can't see it actually causing any technical problem, though. If someone sorts their mail by from addresses, that may cause some unusual sorting. Email ad

Re: dracut error on upgrade to kernel 5.10.11

2021-02-01 Thread sixpack13
> On 2/1/21 3:02 PM, sixpack13 wrote: > > Yes, but I don't see why that's a problem: ... the problem is one is complaining, but I can't do anything against that spaces. there are none in my profile dito: thanks for quick response ___ users mailing li

Re: dracut error on upgrade to kernel 5.10.11

2021-02-01 Thread sixpack13
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 4:02 PM sixpack13 > The From: line in your email looks like this: > > From: " sixpack13" > so yes, there are two spaces in front of sixpack13. confusing I've checked that in my profil: no spaces, nowhere thanks for quick response(s) ! ___

Re: dracut error on upgrade to kernel 5.10.11

2021-02-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2/1/21 3:02 PM, sixpack13 wrote: On 2/1/21 2:04 PM, sixpack13 wrote: That was a different error. This one looks pretty fatal. I also suggest checking the size of the initramfs and if it even exists. - OT - @Samuel a user of this list is sending me emails complaining that are spaces in fr

Re: dracut error on upgrade to kernel 5.10.11

2021-02-01 Thread Jerry James
On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 4:02 PM sixpack13 wrote: > - OT - > > @Samuel > a user of this list is sending me emails complaining that are spaces in from > of my email address. > I checked my profile and can't find a space neither in my name nor my email > address. > > Q.: > do you see spaces in my em

Re: dracut error on upgrade to kernel 5.10.11

2021-02-01 Thread sixpack13
> On 2/1/21 2:04 PM, sixpack13 wrote: > > That was a different error. This one looks pretty fatal. I also > suggest checking the size of the initramfs and if it even exists. - OT - @Samuel a user of this list is sending me emails complaining that are spaces in from of my email address. I che

Re: dracut error on upgrade to kernel 5.10.11

2021-02-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2/1/21 2:32 PM, sean darcy wrote: dracut-install: No SOURCE argument given Usage: dracut-install -D DESTROOTDIR [-r SYSROOTDIR] [OPTION]... -a SOURCE... or: dracut-install -D DESTROOTDIR [-r SYSROOTDIR] [OPTION]... SOURCE DEST or: dracut-install -D DESTROOTDIR [-r SYSROOTDIR] [OPTION]... -m

Re: dracut error on upgrade to kernel 5.10.11

2021-02-01 Thread sean darcy
On 2/1/21 5:12 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/1/21 2:04 PM, sixpack13 wrote: Running scriptlet: kernel-core-5.10.11-200.fc33.x86_64   174/174 dracut-install: No SOURCE argument given Usage: dracut-install -D DESTROOTDIR [-r SYSROOTDIR] [OPTION]... -a SOURCE

Re: dracut error on upgrade to kernel 5.10.11

2021-02-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2/1/21 2:04 PM, sixpack13 wrote: Running scriptlet: kernel-core-5.10.11-200.fc33.x86_64 174/174 dracut-install: No SOURCE argument given Usage: dracut-install -D DESTROOTDIR [-r SYSROOTDIR] [OPTION]... -a SOURCE... or: dracut-install -D DESTROOTDIR

Re: dracut error on upgrade to kernel 5.10.11

2021-02-01 Thread sixpack13
> Running scriptlet: kernel-core-5.10.11-200.fc33.x86_64 > 174/174 > dracut-install: No SOURCE argument given > Usage: dracut-install -D DESTROOTDIR [-r SYSROOTDIR] [OPTION]... -a > SOURCE... > or: dracut-install -D DESTROOTDIR [-r S

dracut error on upgrade to kernel 5.10.11

2021-02-01 Thread sean darcy
Running scriptlet: kernel-core-5.10.11-200.fc33.x86_64 174/174 dracut-install: No SOURCE argument given Usage: dracut-install -D DESTROOTDIR [-r SYSROOTDIR] [OPTION]... -a SOURCE... or: dracut-install -D DESTROOTDIR [-r SYSROOTDIR] [OPTION]... SOURCE

Re: dracut-install: ERROR: installing 'lz4_compress'

2020-09-08 Thread Neal Becker
Found the answer: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/dracut-install-error-installing-lz4-compress/21604/4 On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 8:01 PM Neal Becker wrote: > I guess I had tried to add lz4_compress to kernel install, but must have > done something wrong. Now with every kernel update

dracut-install: ERROR: installing 'lz4_compress'

2020-09-08 Thread Neal Becker
I guess I had tried to add lz4_compress to kernel install, but must have done something wrong. Now with every kernel update I get: Running scriptlet: kernel-core-5.8.6-201.fc32.x86_64 127/127 dracut-install: ERROR: installing 'lz4_compress' dracut: FAILED: /usr/

dracut-install: ERROR: installing 'lz4_compress'

2020-04-26 Thread Neal Becker
Any ideas about this one? Sounds a bit scary, but system seems to be working: [ 8040.319826] dnf[848]: dracut-install: ERROR: installing 'lz4_compress' [ 8040.323817] dnf[848]: dracut: FAILED: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-install -D /var/tmp/dracut.vt8aLI/initramfs --kerneldir /lib/mod

Re: "dracut: FAILED:" with dnf upgrade to the 5.0.3-200.fc29.x86_64 kernel.

2019-03-26 Thread Todd Zullinger
e' and found that: > > > dracut: FAILED: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-install -D > /var/tmp/dracut.ReYjXp/initramfs -H --kerneldir /lib/modules/5.0.3- > 200.fc29.x86_64/ -o -m =drivers/net/phy =drivers/ net/team > =drivers/net/ethernet ecb arc4 bridge stp llc ipv6 bonding 8021q ipvl

Re: "dracut: FAILED:" with dnf upgrade to the 5.0.3-200.fc29.x86_64 kernel.

2019-03-26 Thread Doug Herr
kmod- > > nvidia- > > 340xx-340.107-5.fc29.x86_64. It was not there, so I looked more > > closely at the output of the 'dnf upgrade' and found that: > > > > > > dracut: FAILED: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-install -D > > /var/tmp/dracut.ReYjXp/initramf

Re: "dracut: FAILED:" with dnf upgrade to the 5.0.3-200.fc29.x86_64 kernel.

2019-03-26 Thread stan via users
y at the output of the 'dnf upgrade' and found that: > > > dracut: FAILED: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-install -D > /var/tmp/dracut.ReYjXp/initramfs -H --kerneldir /lib/modules/5.0.3- > 200.fc29.x86_64/ -o -m =drivers/net/phy =drivers/ net/team > =drivers/net/ethernet e

"dracut: FAILED:" with dnf upgrade to the 5.0.3-200.fc29.x86_64 kernel.

2019-03-26 Thread Doug Herr
After a dnf upgrade that included the new 5.x kernel I did my regular check to make sure that the nvidia driver got built via akmod-nvidia- 340xx-340.107-5.fc29.x86_64. It was not there, so I looked more closely at the output of the 'dnf upgrade' and found that: dracut: FAILED: /usr/

Re: any grub/dracut wizz here? - how to move everything but boot to a new NVMe

2019-03-07 Thread sixpack13
... - I'm getting old - ... /etc/fstab needs adjustments (UUID) too !!! ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-cond

Re: any grub/dracut wizz here? - how to move everything but boot to a new NVMe

2019-03-07 Thread sixpack13
orks cause no experience with PCIe-adaptor - open question: === - sudo grub2-install ... ? - sudo dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r) with parameter of the root partition on the nvme ? => man dracut ___ users mailing list --

any grub/dracut wizz here? - how to move everything but boot to a new NVMe

2019-03-07 Thread lejeczek via users
" SSD. Something is obviously missing there in this simplistic approach, although kernel boots from this new small SSD it does not load the rest of the whole system. I am stuck with dracut. That would be grub or/and dracut need tweaking? Or any other way to boot a system off a NVMe via a SSD/HDD? m

f27 :: dracut-initqueue.service takes 2.1s on ssd

2018-01-22 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
Hi! Does anybody know _exactly_ how dracut-initqueue search for "real root" ? is there a method to help this service to find the root faster? i looked over /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/98dracut-systemd/dracut-initqueue.sh but it is not clear to me why it takes 2+ seconds on ssd (EFI) to

Re: F23 dracut can't find disk

2016-04-25 Thread CLOSE Dave
gt; or > > * hostonly=no >in a dracut configuration file > > or > > * by installing the dracut-config-generic rpm Wow, that's the biggest package I've ever installed! (Not!) But it does the trick. I confirm that a package built this way works as intended. -- Dave Cl

Re: F23 dracut can't find disk

2016-04-21 Thread Harald Hoyer
g of all of them fails in exactly the same way: dracut >>> says it can't find the disk filesystems. The kernel boots as it >>> should, and of course that comes from the disk, but then dracut comes >>> along and says it can't find any of the filesystems. No

Re: F23 dracut can't find disk

2016-04-20 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/19/2016 06:07 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: I wrote: I have five machines which were fresh-installed with F23 back in February and all have been booted successfully a few times since. Today, booting of all of them fails in exactly the same way: dracut says it can't find the disk filesystems

Re: F23 dracut can't find disk

2016-04-19 Thread CLOSE Dave
I wrote: > I have five machines which were fresh-installed with F23 back in > February and all have been booted successfully a few times since. > Today, booting of all of them fails in exactly the same way: dracut > says it can't find the disk filesystems. The kernel boots as it

Re: F23 dracut can't find disk

2016-04-07 Thread CLOSE Dave
On 04/07/16 05:56 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > Glad to help. Did the rebuild of the ramdisk work? Are you running > the new kernel? Just curious as this may happen on the next update, > too. I hope to have time for that tomorrow. -- Dave Close -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: F23 dracut can't find disk

2016-04-07 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/07/2016 05:21 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: I wrote: I have five machines which were fresh-installed with F23 back in February and all have been booted successfully a few times since. Today, booting of all of them fails in exactly the same way: dracut says it can't find the disk filesystems

Re: F23 dracut can't find disk

2016-04-07 Thread CLOSE Dave
I wrote: > I have five machines which were fresh-installed with F23 back in > February and all have been booted successfully a few times since. > Today, booting of all of them fails in exactly the same way: dracut > says it can't find the disk filesystems. The kernel boots as it

Re: F23 dracut can't find disk

2016-04-07 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/07/2016 04:50 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: I have five machines which were fresh-installed with F23 back in February and all have been booted successfully a few times since. Today, booting of all of them fails in exactly the same way: dracut says it can't find the disk filesystems. The k

F23 dracut can't find disk

2016-04-07 Thread CLOSE Dave
I have five machines which were fresh-installed with F23 back in February and all have been booted successfully a few times since. Today, booting of all of them fails in exactly the same way: dracut says it can't find the disk filesystems. The kernel boots as it should, and of course

Re: dracut fails to include support for md RAID

2015-10-05 Thread Bill Shirley
I tried a lot of things but finally saw in the rdsosreport.txt that the kernel was seeing the array but refusing to use it. It was several months ago so that's about all I remember. Bill On 10/4/2015 5:01 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, I ran into this or something similar. My system would boot fine

Re: dracut fails to include support for md RAID

2015-10-04 Thread Alex
Hi, > I ran into this or something similar. My system would boot fine on > an older kernel but fail on a new oue. Can't remember which one worked > and which didn't. The solution I found was remove the bitmap, re-boot on > the newer kernel, and add the bitmap back. > > # remove > mdadm --grow --

Re: dracut fails to include support for md RAID

2015-10-04 Thread Bill Shirley
and / on RAID1. The rdsosreport.txt that dracut produces shows no indication of md RAID support in /proc/mdstat and no RAID devices listed with blkid or in /dev. I've tried rebuilding the initramfs images manually on the running system and it still doesn't include RAID support. What cou

[SOLVED] Re: dracut fails to include support for md RAID

2015-10-04 Thread Alex
Oct 4, 2015 at 1:03 AM, Alex wrote: > HI, > > I have a fedora22 system that's been working fine for some time, but > any new kernels fail to boot properly. The system is configured with > /boot and / on RAID1. The rdsosreport.txt that dracut produces shows > no indication of

dracut fails to include support for md RAID

2015-10-03 Thread Alex
HI, I have a fedora22 system that's been working fine for some time, but any new kernels fail to boot properly. The system is configured with /boot and / on RAID1. The rdsosreport.txt that dracut produces shows no indication of md RAID support in /proc/mdstat and no RAID devices listed with

Re: dracut fails to build bootable initramfs on fc22

2015-09-13 Thread Alex
is just regular MBR/GPT > partitioned USB stick with ext234 format? No LVM? The blkid command > should work in the dracut shell and tell you what is where. Yes, just an ext3 format. I've since learned it appears to be necessary to have the USB stick inserted into the working system being u

Re: dracut fails to build bootable initramfs on fc22

2015-09-11 Thread Chris Murphy
ble, I do it regularly. This is just regular MBR/GPT partitioned USB stick with ext234 format? No LVM? The blkid command should work in the dracut shell and tell you what is where. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription op

Re: dracut fails to build bootable initramfs on fc22

2015-09-11 Thread Alex
Hi, >>>> I have a fc22 system that's been working fine and now for some reason >>>> kernel updates result in an unbootable system. It appears to be >>>> related to dracut failing to build a proper initramfs image. >>>> >>>> I h

Re: dracut fails to build bootable initramfs on fc22

2015-09-10 Thread Shaheen Bakhtiar
> On Sep 10, 2015, at 3:22 PM, Alex wrote: > > Hi, > >>> I have a fc22 system that's been working fine and now for some reason >>> kernel updates result in an unbootable system. It appears to be >>> related to dracut failing to build a prope

Re: dracut fails to build bootable initramfs on fc22

2015-09-10 Thread Alex
Hi, >> I have a fc22 system that's been working fine and now for some reason >> kernel updates result in an unbootable system. It appears to be >> related to dracut failing to build a proper initramfs image. >> >> I have a default initramfs from 4.0.4-300 that

Re: dracut fails to build bootable initramfs on fc22

2015-09-09 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > I have a fc22 system that's been working fine and now for some reason > kernel updates result in an unbootable system. It appears to be > related to dracut failing to build a proper initramfs image. > > I have a de

Re: dracut fails to build bootable initramfs on fc22

2015-09-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.09.2015, Shaheen Bakhtiar wrote: > What is the exact error message(s) you are getting?? Where in the boot > process is it failing? It's not me having problems.. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject

Re: dracut fails to build bootable initramfs on fc22

2015-09-09 Thread Ranjan Maitra
015, Alex wrote: > > > >> I have a fc22 system that's been working fine and now for some reason > >> kernel updates result in an unbootable system. It appears to be > >> related to dracut failing to build a proper initramfs image. > > > > I've

Re: dracut fails to build bootable initramfs on fc22

2015-09-09 Thread Shaheen Bakhtiar
AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > > On 09.09.2015, Alex wrote: > >> I have a fc22 system that's been working fine and now for some reason >> kernel updates result in an unbootable system. It appears to be >> related to dracut failing to build a proper initramfs image. &g

Re: dracut fails to build bootable initramfs on fc22

2015-09-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.09.2015, Alex wrote: > I have a fc22 system that's been working fine and now for some reason > kernel updates result in an unbootable system. It appears to be > related to dracut failing to build a proper initramfs image. I've never used any distribution kernel, and on

Re: dracut fails to build bootable initramfs on fc22

2015-09-09 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Alex wrote: > Hi, > > I have a fc22 system that's been working fine and now for some reason > kernel updates result in an unbootable system. It appears to be > related to dracut failing to build a proper initramfs image. > > I have a default initramfs from 4.0.4-300

dracut fails to build bootable initramfs on fc22

2015-09-09 Thread Alex
Hi, I have a fc22 system that's been working fine and now for some reason kernel updates result in an unbootable system. It appears to be related to dracut failing to build a proper initramfs image. I have a default initramfs from 4.0.4-300 that works fine, but using dracut to build

dracut failed to create symbolic link /dev/resume

2015-02-07 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, In fedora20: I get dracut failed to create symbolic link /dev/resume and then cannot fing VolSysUsr0 and I cannot boot I do not know if these 2 issues are correlated. Any this what I did: I cloned /boot and / and a new disk and I removed the old disk /boot is on an ext4 partition

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-25 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2014-10-24 at 18:24 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > Companies do not spend hundreds of millions of dollars (conservatively > estimated at this point) completely retooling firmware to something > that has about as many lines of code as the linux kernel, and > *requiring* manufacturers to enable

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-25 Thread Stefan Huchler
Chris Murphy writes: > > That is correct, but it is a prerequisite for being able to even trust > userspace if kernel space is already compromised then it's a problem. I dont trust the Companies that their proprietary Bioses and UEFIs are not itself a rootkit. So the only solution to fix this pr

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 25, 2014, at 7:35 AM, Stefan Huchler wrote: > Chris Murphy writes: > > I try to not answer to much, because I dont want to argue to much, I > just wanted a solution for my problem and this had nothing to do with > secure boot, but I give my 2 cents to it. Indeed, it's completely on me

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-25 Thread Stefan Huchler
Maybe it was back then no GPT problem, this tool doenst support gpt, but uefi is the next thing, you need to install the right 64bit uefi grub version or something. The point is it adds much more complexity and I personaly gain NOTHING of it, so why the hell should I use it? Yes because at some

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-25 Thread Stefan Huchler
Chris Murphy writes: I try to not answer to much, because I dont want to argue to much, I just wanted a solution for my problem and this had nothing to do with secure boot, but I give my 2 cents to it. Did you really happen to see such a exploit in the wild that somebody used kvm to start window

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-24 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 22, 2014, at 3:14 PM, Stefan Huchler wrote: > Chris Murphy writes: > > > So first of all, I am thankful that u helped me to understand the > problem I was shure I somehow on a interupted dnf process or something I > damaged something in fedora, because I did not remember or notice that

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-22 Thread Stefan Huchler
Mickey writes: > I don't have uefi on my box and I'am getting the same error message > that pops up in the Notification Jobs in my system tray. Did you answer to the wrong thread or to what message do you refer? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subsc

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-22 Thread Mickey
On 10/22/2014 05:14 PM, Stefan Huchler wrote: Chris Murphy writes: So first of all, I am thankful that u helped me to understand the problem I was shure I somehow on a interupted dnf process or something I damaged something in fedora, because I did not remember or notice that it did not updat

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-22 Thread Stefan Huchler
Chris Murphy writes: So first of all, I am thankful that u helped me to understand the problem I was shure I somehow on a interupted dnf process or something I damaged something in fedora, because I did not remember or notice that it did not update grub from the beginning. Maybe I make a switch

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 22, 2014, at 10:48 AM, Stefan Huchler wrote: > Chris Murphy writes: > >> >> Again if you're using modern utilities, you don't have to know any of >> these things, alignment is a solved problem. My point is that Btrfs >> doesn't do anything differently than other filesystems in this reg

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-22 Thread Stefan Huchler
Chris Murphy writes: > > Again if you're using modern utilities, you don't have to know any of > these things, alignment is a solved problem. My point is that Btrfs > doesn't do anything differently than other filesystems in this regard, > which is exactly nothing. It all depends on an earlier to

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-21 Thread poma
On 21.10.2014 04:30, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Oct 20, 2014, at 9:42 PM, poma wrote: > >> On 21.10.2014 03:26, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> >>> On Oct 20, 2014, at 8:53 PM, poma wrote: >>> On 20.10.2014 17:14, Chris Murphy wrote: > > The bug is in grubby, which is what's called fr

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-21 Thread poma
On 21.10.2014 16:17, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Oct 21, 2014, at 8:07 AM, Stefan Huchler wrote: > >> Chris Murphy writes: >> >>> Where you get bad results is with, e.g. a pre-existing legacy OS like >>> Windows XP, where it's not aligned and any subsequent partition is >>> also not aligned. In

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 21, 2014, at 8:07 AM, Stefan Huchler wrote: > Chris Murphy writes: > >> Where you get bad results is with, e.g. a pre-existing legacy OS like >> Windows XP, where it's not aligned and any subsequent partition is >> also not aligned. In that case, even a Btrfs volume wouldn't be >> align

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-21 Thread Stefan Huchler
Chris Murphy writes: > Where you get bad results is with, e.g. a pre-existing legacy OS like > Windows XP, where it's not aligned and any subsequent partition is > also not aligned. In that case, even a Btrfs volume wouldn't be > aligned. I dont want to care at all, I dont want to know if to use

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 20, 2014, at 9:42 PM, poma wrote: > On 21.10.2014 03:26, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Oct 20, 2014, at 8:53 PM, poma wrote: >> >>> On 20.10.2014 17:14, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> The bug is in grubby, which is what's called from within kernel packages to update bootloade

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-20 Thread poma
On 21.10.2014 03:10, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 02:53:42AM +0200, poma wrote: >>> The bug is in grubby, which is what's called from within kernel >>> packages to update bootloader configuration scripts: GRUB legacy, >>> GRUB2, syslinux, yaboot, and probably a bunch of other boo

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-20 Thread poma
On 21.10.2014 03:26, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Oct 20, 2014, at 8:53 PM, poma wrote: > >> On 20.10.2014 17:14, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >>> >>> The bug is in grubby, which is what's called from within kernel packages to >>> update bootloader configuration scripts: GRUB legacy, GRUB2, syslinux,

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 20, 2014, at 8:53 PM, poma wrote: > On 20.10.2014 17:14, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> >> The bug is in grubby, which is what's called from within kernel packages to >> update bootloader configuration scripts: GRUB legacy, GRUB2, syslinux, >> yaboot, and probably a bunch of other bootloade

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 20, 2014, at 5:56 PM, Stefan Huchler wrote: > > Chris Murphy writes: >> There should be packages somewhere on http://czarc.org but I'm not >> sure where. If you can't find them lemme know and I'll go dig around. > > thank you is that the file? > http://czarc.org/fedora/repo/20/x86_64/g

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 02:53:42AM +0200, poma wrote: > > The bug is in grubby, which is what's called from within kernel > > packages to update bootloader configuration scripts: GRUB legacy, > > GRUB2, syslinux, yaboot, and probably a bunch of other bootloaders > > are all supported by grubby. It

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