initrd-tools: assembles raid using mdadm with devfs device names even when there's no devfs

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Automatically imported from Debian bug report #257865 http://bugs.debian.org/257865

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Automatically imported from Debian bug report #257865 http://bugs.debian.org/257865

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Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 14:05:35 +0200
From: Andreas Kroschel <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: initrd-tools: assembles raid using mdadm with devfs device names even when there's no devfs

Package: initrd-tools
Version: 0.1.71
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

For starting a root software RAID in an initrd, mkinitrd creates a
command in /script to assemble the RAID on startup. With raidtools2,
this works fine. But with mdadm the line reads (example)

mdadm -A /devfs/md/0 -R <uid1:uid2:...> <dev1> <dev2> ...
         ^^^^^^^^^^^
instead of /dev/md0, even when there is no devfs installed. This renders
a system without devfs unbootable, if / is on a raid and the raid
modules are loaded from the initrd.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (20, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8)

Versions of packages initrd-tools depends on:
ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.0.91-2 The GNU core utilities
ii cpio 2.5-1.1 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii cramfsprogs 1.1-5 Tools for CramFs (Compressed ROM F
ii dash 0.4.26-2 The Debian Almquist Shell
ii fileutils 5.0.91-2 The GNU file management utilities
ii util-linux 2.12-3 Miscellaneous system utilities

-- no debconf information

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Remove myself from all these CCs now that we have the warty-bugs mailing list

[Martin Michlmayr (tbm)]

severity 257865 minor
thanks

* Andreas Kroschel <email address hidden> [2004-07-06 14:05]:
> instead of /dev/md0, even when there is no devfs installed. This renders
> a system without devfs unbootable, if / is on a raid and the raid
> modules are loaded from the initrd.

initrd-tools is made to work with Debian kernels which have a specific
configuration. In this case, Debian kernels have devfs built-in and
there are no intentions of supporting something else. Apparently, lvm
won't work at all without devfs.

So either use a Debian kernel and initrd-tools will work for you, or
don't use an initrd at all when you use custom kernels.
--
Martin Michlmayr
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Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 21:04:57 +0200
From: Martin Michlmayr <email address hidden>
To: Andreas Kroschel <email address hidden>
Cc: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: initrd-tools: assembles raid using mdadm with devfs device names even when there's no
 devfs

severity 257865 minor
thanks

* Andreas Kroschel <email address hidden> [2004-07-06 14:05]:
> instead of /dev/md0, even when there is no devfs installed. This renders
> a system without devfs unbootable, if / is on a raid and the raid
> modules are loaded from the initrd.

initrd-tools is made to work with Debian kernels which have a specific
configuration. In this case, Debian kernels have devfs built-in and
there are no intentions of supporting something else. Apparently, lvm
won't work at all without devfs.

So either use a Debian kernel and initrd-tools will work for you, or
don't use an initrd at all when you use custom kernels.
--
Martin Michlmayr
<email address hidden>

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Downgraded in Debian; I agree

[Martin Michlmayr (tbm)]

As I said before:

initrd-tools is made to work with Debian kernels which have a specific
configuration. In this case, Debian kernels have devfs built-in and
there are no intentions of supporting something else. Apparently, lvm
won't work at all without devfs.

So either use a Debian kernel and initrd-tools will work for you, or
don't use an initrd at all when you use custom kernels.

--
Martin Michlmayr
<email address hidden>

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Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:08:55 +0100
From: Martin Michlmayr <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: closing

As I said before:

initrd-tools is made to work with Debian kernels which have a specific
configuration. In this case, Debian kernels have devfs built-in and
there are no intentions of supporting something else. Apparently, lvm
won't work at all without devfs.

So either use a Debian kernel and initrd-tools will work for you, or
don't use an initrd at all when you use custom kernels.

--
Martin Michlmayr
<email address hidden>