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waldek_a

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2005-04-19

Posts: 85

Device Mapper and -fallback.img - stock, ck and beyond

Hi!
I have similar findings to superstoned, see at the end of

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=27696

device mapper module is not the part of the kernel26*-fallback.img. I understand the fallback images as the ones that contain all modules and if we get into trouble by generating our own cpio image we can point GRUB/LILO to them and be able to fix the problems.

Unfortunatelly the device mapper is not included in them (I checked the stock, ck and beyond kernels) which can cause problems if somebody installs the "/" on LVM managed disks.
Would it make sense to include them in the "fallback" image?

Besides of that I created a custom cpio image that includes the dm_mod.k by putting it into mkinitcpio.conf

MODULES="sata_nv sd_mod reiserfs dm_mod"

funny thing is it is working fine for the beyond and ck kernels but the stock one is not loading it although it is there - in the img file. Weird.

Any comments?

waldek

waldek_a

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2005-04-19

Posts: 85

Re: Device Mapper and -fallback.img - stock, ck and beyond

I checked again - custom img file works for all 3 kernels. My mistake - sorry.