[Wolves] [Adam's failure to boot]

[Adam Sweet]

--- David Goodwin <david at codepoets.co.uk> wrote:

> Right,
> 
> The pivot root thing will be certainly solved by you
> re-creating the 
> initrd image. The problem is that the initrd image
> contains various 
> files (e.g. modules, instructions on how to boot /
> etc) and it's out of 
> sync with the "real world".
> 
> If you're curious, try :
> 
> mount -o loop /boot/initrd.img-2.X.X.XXXXX /mnt/test
> 
> and you'll see what it contains.

This didn't work (ioctl device busy and must specify
fs type). No matter because:
> 
> You should just need to do the following to "fix"
> your problem :
> 
> Edit /etc/mkinitrd/modules and add in the sata
> modules necessary for 
> your card, as well as probably scsi_mod and sd_mod.
> (Just list the 
> modules, one per line).
> 
> 
> Then, try running :
> 
> mkinitrd -o /boot/mkinitrd.img.custom `uname -r`
> 
> (Where the output of `uname -r` looks pretty like
> 2.6.10-5-K7.
> 
> Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst (or edit it at bootup) and
> get it to use your 
> new custom image, and cross your fingers :)

Bingo. It worked. Booted up first time. I really
didn't think it would be this easy (when you know how
of course).

> I'm fairly up to speed on this stuff at the moment
> after moving to use a 
> RAID1 root FS recently on my server (it's actually a
> broken RAID1 as the 
> shop haven't got another 120gb sata hdd yet)

Dave, I love you :) Really, I do. If you weren't
married I'd propose. I am *sooooo* pleased. You have
no idea how relieved I am, I can now get on with life
and get some work done. It's taken me a week to get
this far.

Just in case I've not made this explicitly clear
enough, thank you. Seriously, you plucked this issue
out of obscurity and finished it off for me.

Thanks, maybe I'll buy your curry next time I get
paid.

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