Re: Update-initramfs Most vs Dep
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:35 AM, David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> wrote:
> 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).
Are the extra 16MB (4MB with "dep" and 20MB with "most") that big a problem?!
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