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zerophase

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Registered: 2015-09-03

Posts: 239

How to remove requirment for crc32c module to mount root at boot?

I reformatted my drive with gparted, before reinstalling, and now the crc32c module needs to be in the initramfs to mount root. I believe gparted turns checksumming on for ext4 by default. 
I tried running:

tune2fs -O ^metadata_csum /dev/path/to/disk 

to remove checksumming from the partition. Checking with dumpe2fs the checksums were successfully remove,  but I still can't boot without crc32c included in the initramfs.
Is there anyway to get this system bootable without having to run mkfs.ext4 on root? Really, don't want to format and rollback to a backup if I can avoid it.

ooo

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Registered: 2013-04-10

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Re: How to remove requirment for crc32c module to mount root at boot?

Maybe I'm missing something, but why couldn't you just chroot from arch iso, and rebuild the initramfs with crc32c module included?

zerophase

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Registered: 2015-09-03

Posts: 239

Re: How to remove requirment for crc32c module to mount root at boot?

Maybe I'm missing something, but why couldn't you just chroot from arch iso, and rebuild the initramfs with crc32c module included?

I've done that. I would just prefer to not have to have the crc32c module if possible. I just wanted to check if formatting the partition again was my only option for ditching the crc32c module.