Re: Update-initramfs Most vs Dep

[David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>]

On Tuesday 22 May 2012 18:32:55 David Baron wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 May 2012 16:59:30 Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> > David Baron a écrit :
> > > On Tuesday 22 May 2012 02:10:06 Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> > >> You can add the missing required modules in
> > >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and rebuild the initramfs.
> > > 
> > > However, with latest initramfs-tools, I do not get a list of missing
> > > modules,
> > 
> > You have to guess which modules are needed to mount the final root
> > filesystem, e.g. by looking at the bottom of the output of lsmod after
> > booting with a "full" initramfs.
> 
> ext3 would be obvious
> jbd ? (dep ext3)
> btrfs?
> 
> ata_beneric ?
> ata_piix ?

I placed all these in modules in addition to a few others I had tried because 
of previous error messages. A dep update-initramfs still produces the 
complaint about
 :/ Is a directory
but at least the one I tried booted! 1/3 the size.

The first work-around I tried was a phony symlink rootfs->/ which can be on my 
home directory where I am logged in. This is what produces the complaint but 
enables an initrd-img to be produced.

/proc/mounts certainly does have a rootfs on / so this certainly is a bug and 
nothing to do with the original knoppix (though I have not tried it on a 
"pure" chroot produced be debootstrap--my system will not accept a  dep-based 
bootup sequence and that certainly could be related).