Bug#332824: linux-image-2.6.13-1-686: Cannot find LVM root fs

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 10:20 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 08:30:42PM -0400, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:
> 
> > Well, it works very well, and booted out of the box 
> > > yaird-built pre-init image worked as well, and was smaller than the
> > > initramfs image (1.6 MB vs 5.4 MB).

the difference beeing that you can put your harddisc into another
box and it will come up just fine (having all the available drivers).

yaird is tuned for your current box.

> > He nice, comparison, i suppose you need to drop the default "MODULES=most"
> > option of initramfs-tools and use MODULES=dep. Can we now please try to
> > default to MODULES=dep ? If we don't do it we will again be saddled with
> > MODULES=most for etch.
> 
> When I tried that, I got a bunch of errors:
> ln: `/tmp/mkinitramfs_IJobWs/./modprobe': File exists
> ln: `/tmp/mkinitramfs_IJobWs/./modprobe': File exists
> ln: `/tmp/mkinitramfs_IJobWs/./modprobe': File exists
> ln: `/tmp/mkinitramfs_IJobWs/./modprobe': File exists
> ln: `/tmp/mkinitramfs_IJobWs/./modprobe': File exists
> cpio: ./modprobe: Too many levels of symbolic links
> Working files in /tmp/mkinitramfs_IJobWs and overlay
> in /tmp/mkinitramfs-OL_loyqMq
> 
> 
> and an image that was still 5.1 MB.

thanks for your testing,
we'll work on that this week. :)

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maks