Bug 508678

Summary:	sys-kernel/genkernel initramfs with lvm raid and systemd fails to boot
Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects	Reporter:	Piergiorgio Beruto <pberuto>
Component:	genkernel	Assignee:	Gentoo Genkernel Maintainers <genkernel>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	systemd
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Piergiorgio Beruto 2014-04-25 14:15:43 UTC

I'm running a gentoo system with raid + lvm and a separate /usr partition.
Using openRC everything works fine.

When using systemd the initramfs won't boot because the default linuxrc script would test the presence of "/dev" and "init" in the NEWROOT at a time the /usr partition has not been mounted yet (and "systemd" which replaces "init" resides in /usr).

I've tried modifying the linuxrc removing the "init" sanity check (ugly hack) and the system booted OK.

I've tried also to anticipate the /usr mount so that the test is OK and this worked also but I am not sure of any possible drawback of this on different configurations.

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-04-25 14:56:21 UTC

*** Bug 508686 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2014-04-26 13:04:02 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 479730 ***