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

brain0 · 2010-02-12 14:32:15

skottish wrote:

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.

You should be able to use a dynamically linked 915resolution now instead of a static one, this will make the initramfs a bit smaller.

However, on Intel graphics, you should rather rely on KMS than on 915resolution+uvesafb these days.

skottish · 2010-02-13 03:52:21

brain0 wrote:

skottish wrote:
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.
You should be able to use a dynamically linked 915resolution now instead of a static one, this will make the initramfs a bit smaller.
However, on Intel graphics, you should rather rely on KMS than on 915resolution+uvesafb these days.

Poulsbo. I can't rely on Intel... yet.

Thanks for the heads up on 915resolution. Maybe the maintainer will adopt my patch so I can orphan the other. Time for testing.

punkeroso · 2010-02-13 19:48:18

brain0 wrote:

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.

Works flawlessy!

Regards

brain0 · 2010-02-13 22:29:49

punkeroso wrote:

brain0 wrote:
Please try this configuration again. I never made any tests without udev myself.
Works flawlessy!
Regards

Thanks for the feedback.

EVRAMP · 2010-02-14 14:06:54

Also thank you for explaining this update on your blog!

R00KIE · 2010-02-14 16:53:41

This is not in testing anymore but anyway ....
Update went just fine on my notebook (ext4 root, sata disk).

However when I did the same on an usb flash disk (ext2 root) things have gone wrong. Image generation went fine but then after rebooting I was dropped into the recovery shell.

As far as I can see it cannot detect any partitions, it detects the device but no partitions, /sys/block is empty, /dev has no reference to any sd*.

This is what I have in mkinitcpio.conf
MODULES=""
HOOKS="base udev usb autodetect pata scsi sata usbinput keymap filesystems"

Any ideas?

Edit:
Forgot to say that the fallback image does not work too.

Last edited by R00KIE (2010-02-14 16:55:52)

brain0 · 2010-02-14 17:32:18

R00KIE wrote:

However when I did the same on an usb flash disk (ext2 root) things have gone wrong. Image generation went fine but then after rebooting I was dropped into the recovery shell.
As far as I can see it cannot detect any partitions, it detects the device but no partitions, /sys/block is empty, /dev has no reference to any sd*.
This is what I have in mkinitcpio.conf
MODULES=""
HOOKS="base udev usb autodetect pata scsi sata usbinput keymap filesystems"
Any ideas?
Edit:
Forgot to say that the fallback image does not work too.

Look at lsmod to see if usb-storage and a USB controller is loaded. Look at dmesg to see what happens, if it even detects the USB drive, if USB is working at all and so on.

brain0 · 2010-02-14 17:59:23

Okay, I just installed it on a USB drive and can't get USB to work either, it won't even load the HID modules, no idea what's wrong.

brain0 · 2010-02-14 18:16:21

Gotcha: http://projects.archlinux.org/mkinitcpi … 1502040b72

EDIT: Fixed in mkinitcpio 0.6.2-1

Last edited by brain0 (2010-02-14 18:37:04)

R00KIE · 2010-02-14 18:40:06

Didn't remember to look at lsmod.

While using the fallback image these are the modules that get loaded:

pata_acpi
usb_storage
pata_sis
ata_generic
libata
ohci_hcd
scsi_mod
ehci_hcd
usbcore

By looking at what which modules my notebook has loaded (I had the usb drive plugged here already to rebuild the images in a chroot) I saw that there was a sd_mod module loaded, if I rmmod usb_storage then modprobe sd_mod and usb_storage then I detects the partitions, so in the fallback it seems only sd_mod is missing (it worked fine before the update). However they dont show up in /dev or /dev/disk (I guess thats udev's job to put things there).

With the default boot image these are the modules loaded

pata_acpi
ata_generic
ohci_hcd
libata
ehci_hcd
usbcore

If I modprobe sd_mod and usb_storage then it detects the partitions on the usb drive.

I've added sd_mod and usb_storage to the modules line and now it outputs the detection of the partitions (which it didn't before) but still cannot boot, I guess thats because of what brain0 pointed out.

brain0 · 2010-02-14 19:02:40

ROOKIE, read my last post, mkinitcpio 0.6.2-1 is out and fixes this problem.

R00KIE · 2010-02-14 19:26:42

brain0 wrote:

ROOKIE, read my last post, mkinitcpio 0.6.2-1 is out and fixes this problem.

Yes, you posted while I was testing this stuff on another machine and writing the reply
Things got sorted out very fast with this one, I have tested mkinitcpio 0.6.2-1 and confirm it works for me™.

brain0 · 2010-02-14 19:32:55

R00KIE wrote:

brain0 wrote:
ROOKIE, read my last post, mkinitcpio 0.6.2-1 is out and fixes this problem.
Yes, you posted while I was testing this stuff on another machine and writing the reply
Things got sorted out very fast with this one, I have tested mkinitcpio 0.6.2-1 and confirm it works for me™.

No problem. I set up two USB Arch systems on my external hard drive, one 32 and one 64 Bit, so I could work on this issue.

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#26 2010-02-12 14:32:15

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

#27 2010-02-13 03:52:21

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

#28 2010-02-13 19:48:18

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

#29 2010-02-13 22:29:49

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

#30 2010-02-14 14:06:54

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

#31 2010-02-14 16:53:41

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

#32 2010-02-14 17:32:18

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

#33 2010-02-14 17:59:23

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

#34 2010-02-14 18:16:21

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

#35 2010-02-14 18:40:06

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

#36 2010-02-14 19:02:40

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

#37 2010-02-14 19:26:42

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