kernel 3.5.0 and initrd

[Artur Wroblewski]

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Elan Ruusamäe <glen at pld-linux.org> wrote:
> On 01/08/12 22:38, Artur Wroblewski wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Artur Wroblewski<wrobell at pld-linux.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> When starting system using kernel 3.5.0, then I am getting something
>>> around
>>>
>>>      BusyBox v1.19.3 (2012-01-13 00:33:55 CET) multi-call binary.
>>>
>>>      Usage: mknod [-m MODE] NAME TYPE MAJOR MINOR
>>>
>>> Before that info that /dev/sda1 is missing and after some nice kernel
>>> oops.
>>>
>>> Sorry for such lame bug report, but maybe someone else has something
>>> similar?
>
> yes it's lame, start with geninitrd -v output when generating initrd

# geninitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-3.5.0-1.gz 3.5.0-1
geninitrd: # $Revision: 12530 $ $Date:: 2012-03-30 14:41:13 +0000 #$ (geninitrd)
geninitrd: find_tool: found /usr/lib64/initrd/busybox
geninitrd: find_tool: found /usr/lib64/initrd/cryptsetup
geninitrd: find_tool: found /usr/lib64/initrd/lvm
geninitrd: find_tool: found /usr/lib64/initrd/blkid
geninitrd: find_tool: found /usr/lib64/initrd/udevd
geninitrd: find_tool: found /usr/lib64/initrd/udevadm
geninitrd: find_tool: found /usr/lib64/initrd/v86d
geninitrd: Finding USB keyboard modules
geninitrd: Finding SATA modules (class=0x0106)
geninitrd: Using /dev/sda1 as device for rootfs
geninitrd: Finding modules for device path /dev/sda1
geninitrd: is_luks: /dev/sda1 is not device mapper name
geninitrd: Finding SCSI modules using scsi_hostadapter
geninitrd: Building initrd...
geninitrd: + cp /usr/lib64/initrd/busybox /root/tmp/initrd.SgpGRl/bin/busybox
geninitrd: Loading module [scsi_mod] with options [scan=sync ]
geninitrd: Loading module [libata]
geninitrd: Loading module [libahci]
geninitrd: Loading module [ahci]
geninitrd: Loading module [crc-t10dif]
geninitrd: Loading module [sd_mod]
geninitrd: Loading module [scsi_wait_scan]
geninitrd: Loading module [jbd]
geninitrd: Loading module [mbcache]
geninitrd: Loading module [ext3]
geninitrd: Adding BLKID support to initrd
geninitrd: + cp /usr/lib64/initrd/blkid /root/tmp/initrd.SgpGRl/bin/blkid
geninitrd: Adding rootfs finding based on kernel cmdline root= option support.
geninitrd: + cp /dev/sda1 /root/tmp/initrd.SgpGRl/dev/sda1
geninitrd: image size: 3072 KiB (/root/tmp/initrd.SgpGRl)
geninitrd: Creating initramfs image /root/tmp/initrd.img-agk5Xc
geninitrd: finding compressor: lzo gzip xz lzma bzip2 (via yes)
geninitrd: Compressing /boot/initrd-3.5.0-1.gz with gzip


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