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Rudd-O / zfs-fedora-installer

Fedora on ZFS root installer
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qemu step failing, don't know how to handle 'root=ZFS=...' #3

Closed seriv closed 11 years ago

seriv commented 11 years ago

It failed, I have screenshot of QEMU, not sure if it's needed: in journalctl I see a line like

Apr 10 17:31:57 localhost dracut: FATAL: Don't know how to handle 'root=ZFS=my4/ROOT/os'

It started emergency shell, but I don't know how can I fix anything here. I don't see zfs/zpool binaries available here.

Rudd-O commented 11 years ago

This most likely inticades a failure of the installation of the ZFS compile time step. The Dracut when run during thi installation gets the files from /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90zfs and adds them to the ramdisk along with the necessary ZFS programs and kernel modules, causing the ramdisk to be able to handle ZFS disks. The error message you got is because the dracut step failed to actually add these files duringramdisk build time which might indicate that the dracut files were never installed. I would appreciate if you could figure out why the root file system never actually got the /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90zfs directory installed. and I will be adding a check that bombs out if the initramfs does not get the kernel modules or zfs programs.

seriv commented 11 years ago

I was not able to reproduce this issue