Bug 144365

Summary:	sys-apps/mkinitrd-3.5.7 copies softlinks to initrd volume
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jim Brownfield <Jim_Brownfield>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	324741
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Description Jim Brownfield 2006-08-18 17:04:49 UTC

mkinitrd 3.5.7
kernel 2.6.17-gentoo-r4
mknod GNU 5.94

When creating Gentoo on a raid (md) root device, mknod appears to want to create the "/dev/md?" files as soft links pointing to the "real" nodes at "/dev/md/?".  However, mkinitrd copies the "/dev/md?" nodes to the initrd volume as softlinks, causing a kernel panic at boot time since there is no real device on the volume.  Using "cp -aL" instead of "cp -a" in mkinitrd for the device copying seems to resolve this issue.

Comment 1 Sergey Belyashov 2007-06-03 08:55:17 UTC

same problem in sys-apps/mkinitrd-4.2.0.3 and in newer RH release - 4.2.1.10.

Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-07-21 12:51:40 UTC

gone