The mkinitcpio upgrade went great for me on 32 and 64 bit

skottish · 2010-02-07 17:12:49

Since the mkinitcpio upgrade is a big one, I thought that I'd start this thread.

Following the advice here:

http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 15338.html

I backed up /boot/kernel26.img on my 64 bit machine, updated from testing, ran 'mkinitcpio -p kernel26' as root, reboot, and everything works as expected.

My 32 bit machine is a little more complicated in that it's using 915resolution-static and v86d. I followed the same steps above and everything works.

Nice job devs.

murr · 2010-02-07 22:48:45

Worked fine for me, too (i686).

Could be my imagination, but the machine seemed to boot slightly faster.

skottish · 2010-02-07 23:02:58

murr wrote:

Worked fine for me, too (i686).
Could be my imagination, but the machine seemed to boot slightly faster.

I noticed it too.

flamelab · 2010-02-07 23:04:30

/ on ext4, x86_64, using grub-legacy, with new mkinitcpio, all OK. I just have a weird message with udev though on boot ("seems udev is running", something like that)

Last edited by flamelab (2010-02-07 23:04:51)

meijin · 2010-02-07 23:23:19

i686 here - root on ext4, with i915 as module, everything is OK,
according to bootchart - system boot is faster in 2-3 sec.
i had this udev massage before, not any more.

Assaf.

R00KIE · 2010-02-08 01:40:52

flamelab wrote:

/ on ext4, x86_64, using grub-legacy, with new mkinitcpio, all OK. I just have a weird message with udev though on boot ("seems udev is running", something like that)

If you mean this http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88936 then it's harmless.

flamelab · 2010-02-08 05:35:13

OK, after reboot, it doesn't appear anymore.

.:B:. · 2010-02-08 15:59:15

Well it was a bug in klibc-udev or sth, came up before.

As for the new mkinitcpio: things went smoothly on my laptop; I have a problem with my own kernel crapping out on me but the official kernel works fine (and so does the newly generated image).

I haven't tried my server yet, I will do so in due time, my desktop will follow suit soon (all three are 32 bit systems).

Blue Peppers · 2010-02-08 17:10:21

Another seemless update. When will someone break somthing... this is no fun

megawebmaster · 2010-02-08 17:33:27

For me it works too (Arch x86_64). Great job!

EDIT: I saw a little faster startup too

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milomouse · 2010-02-08 17:48:24

Upgraded the other day on laptop running x86_64 with lilo, custom kern, udev, no hal. Works great. I only wanted to post here because I noticed quite a difference in speed when rebooting even before reading this post and seeing others having an increase as well. Great job.

Maxa · 2010-02-08 17:53:19

Same here, no problems. Filesize is up from 1.2M to 2.0M, not that it really matters

punkeroso · 2010-02-08 19:15:04

I got this when trying to boot with the new image:

cat: can't open '/sys/block//sys/block/sda/sda3/dev: No such file or directory.
ERROR: Unable to determine major/minor number of root device '/dev/sda3'

This is my mkinitcpio.conf

MODULES="ahci scsi_mod libata sd_mod ext4"
HOOKS="base"

Root on ext4 and x86_64.

Regards

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flamelab · 2010-02-08 19:19:03

Add "autodetect" to hooks.

punkeroso · 2010-02-08 19:40:31

flamelab wrote:

Add "autodetect" to hooks.

Same story!

flamelab · 2010-02-08 20:02:45

I have these HOOKS="scsi pata filesystems autodetect sata base udev keymap"

add them and rerun mkinitcpio.

tomk · 2010-02-08 21:27:03

All good here too, on x86_64. Stock kernel and pf kernel both fine, with or without radeon kms.

Server is i686, and doesn't run testing - so that will have to wait.

.:B:. · 2010-02-08 21:54:47

Maxa wrote:

Same here, no problems. Filesize is up from 1.2M to 2.0M, not that it really matters

I noticed an increase too, since the modules in there must be identical, I assume it's a compression issue.

punkeroso · 2010-02-08 23:02:18

flamelab wrote:

I have these HOOKS="scsi pata filesystems autodetect sata base udev keymap"
add them and rerun mkinitcpio.

I ran few tests and got that, in order to boot, the image built with the new mkinitcpio needs the udev hook even if all the necessary modules are in the modules array.

Regards

some-guy94 · 2010-02-08 23:13:46

.:B:. wrote:

Maxa wrote:
Same here, no problems. Filesize is up from 1.2M to 2.0M, not that it really matters
I noticed an increase too, since the modules in there must be identical, I assume it's a compression issue.

Well klibc and its friends are being replaced by glibc and busybox, so the size should go up.

prasetyams · 2010-02-09 09:33:12

Works fine here, KMS for intel and splashy (jpg) on Dell Inspiron 1440. Haven't tried on other laptop which has ATI HD3200, KMS and splashy.

solstice · 2010-02-09 19:34:25

yeah. it's working fine. may be sligthly faster.

but i just discovered i can't use anymore ctrl-C and any other ctrl sequence in the console. i don't think it's related to mkinitcpio. i am asking here in case. (only ctrl-a ctrl-m and ctrl-w do something

EDIT:
ok. it's the fr-latin9 keymap that cause problem

Last edited by solstice (2010-02-09 20:05:12)

borrell · 2010-02-11 01:59:55

The upgrade went great for me on 32 bit, with ext4 on top of encrypted LVM.

falconindy · 2010-02-11 04:17:14

Works great here too! Wait, I don't use a boot image...

Just for fun I resurrected my vanilla kernel's boot image to handle a BTRFS root when I built 2.6.32.8 today. Works lovely. So does my other comp's RAID-1 setup.

brain0 · 2010-02-12 14:30:37

punkeroso wrote:

I got this when trying to boot with the new image:
cat: can't open '/sys/block//sys/block/sda/sda3/dev: No such file or directory.
ERROR: Unable to determine major/minor number of root device '/dev/sda3'
This is my mkinitcpio.conf
MODULES="ahci scsi_mod libata sd_mod ext4"
HOOKS="base"
Root on ext4 and x86_64.

Sorry, I just saw this thread. This problem should be fixed now, here: http://projects.archlinux.org/mkinitcpi … 6c1ae7f8c0

Please try this configuration again. I never made any tests without udev myself.

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#1 2010-02-07 17:12:49

The mkinitcpio upgrade went great for me on 32 and 64 bit

#2 2010-02-07 22:48:45

Re: The mkinitcpio upgrade went great for me on 32 and 64 bit

#3 2010-02-07 23:02:58

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#5 2010-02-07 23:23:19

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#6 2010-02-08 01:40:52

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#7 2010-02-08 05:35:13

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#8 2010-02-08 15:59:15

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#9 2010-02-08 17:10:21

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#10 2010-02-08 17:33:27

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#11 2010-02-08 17:48:24

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#12 2010-02-08 17:53:19

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#16 2010-02-08 20:02:45

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#17 2010-02-08 21:27:03

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#18 2010-02-08 21:54:47

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#19 2010-02-08 23:02:18

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#20 2010-02-08 23:13:46

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#21 2010-02-09 09:33:12

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#22 2010-02-09 19:34:25

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#23 2010-02-11 01:59:55

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#24 2010-02-11 04:17:14

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