https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484897 User archie@dellroad.org added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484897#c2 --- Comment #2 from Archie Cobbs 2009-03-13 07:54:31 MST --- Note: Just to be clear, in my particular problem described here, I never said "just pressing CTRL-D makes linux boot". What I said was: FIRST running "modprobe reiserfs" and THEN pressing CTRL-D makes it boot. The mystery is: why, even though the reiserfs module seems to be included in the initrd as it should be, does it not get loaded at the appropriate time so that root can be mounted? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484897 User archie@dellroad.org added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484897#c4 --- Comment #4 from Archie Cobbs 2009-03-14 12:44:14 MST --- I did some debugging and here is some more info. The problem occurs in the initrd script boot/83-mount.sh in this code: if [ -z "$rootfstype" -a -x /sbin/udevadm -a -n "$sysdev" ]; then eval $(/sbin/udevadm info -q env -p $sysdev | sed -n '/ID_FS_TYPE/p') rootfstype=$ID_FS_TYPE [ -n "$rootfstype" ] && [ "$rootfstype" = "unknown" ] && $rootfstype= ID_FS_TYPE= fi What's supposed to happen in there is that udevadm spits out "ID_FS_TYPE=reiserfs" (among other stuff). When you run this command after the system has booted, it in fact does work properly: $ /sbin/udevadm info -q env -p /devices/virtual/block/md0 MD_LEVEL=raid1 MD_DEVICES=2 MD_METADATA=1.00 MD_UUID=dec8fad4:b86893d1:8a7eeeb6:e791be9d MD_NAME=0 ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem ID_FS_TYPE=reiserfs ID_FS_VERSION=3.6 ID_FS_UUID=743d0ae3-6a8d-4b7a-81fa-fbfe890870a8 ID_FS_UUID_ENC=743d0ae3-6a8d-4b7a-81fa-fbfe890870a8 ID_FS_LABEL= ID_FS_LABEL_ENC= ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE= However, when the boot/83-mount.sh script runs at boot time as part of the initrd bootstrap, this same command outputs only this (as determined by hacking this script): MD_LEVEL=raid1 MD_DEVICES=2 MD_METADATA=1.00 MD_UUID=dec8fad4:b86893d1:8a7eeeb6:e791be9d MD_DEVNAME=0 MD_NAME=0 So this failure of udevadm to spit out the ID_FS_* stuff seems to be the root of the problem. I've attached a workaround that I've applied to my initrd. This of course only works if your root filesystem is reiserfs. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484897 User eirikjbj@gmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484897#c6 --- Comment #6 from Eirik Johansen Bjørgan 2009-03-14 19:33:15 MST --- after updating to the latest factory kernel, I do not need to press CTRL+D to start! so the it is fixed for me! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.