Re: [OSR-devel] Remounting New Root After Booting

[Gordan B. <go...@bo...>]

>>>>>>>>> And, obviously, I'd need to make all this happen before the normal
>>>>>>>>> boot process tries to mount the root disk.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Do it before or right after scsi-start is called.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I can't find any reference to "scsi-start". Where does this happen?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's scsi_start in linux.generic.sh Line 239.
>>>>>
>>>>> D'oh! What a difference an _ makes.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think the iSCSI stuff should be added before the dm_start stuff,
>>>>> which is just before the scsi_start.
>>>>>
>>>>> Right, that seems to have worked. Almost there. Now I get:
>>>>>
>>>>> Mounting LABEL=/ on /mnt/newroot..device not found error [FAILED]
>>>>> Mounting /cdsl.local on /cluster/cdsl/3..no cdsldir found
>>>>> "/mnt/mewroot//cluster/cdsl"
>>>>> Could not mount cdsl /cdsl.local to /cluster/cdsl/3. Exiting
>>>>>
>>>>> Where does it get the LABEL=/ from? I'm pretty sure I didn't set any.
>>>>
>>>> Concerning LABEL=/
>>>> I think you should check you bootloader config and change root=LABEL=/
>>>> to root=/dev/sd.. That should do it.
>>>
>>> What files is that in?
>>
>> Just looking through the initrd init script - what is supposed to be in
>> /etc/sysconfig/comoonics-chroot ? It's mentioned in the comments, but I
>> don't see it referenced in the actualy code.
> If you have a local disk in your server you can use it to move all the files
> on it and save some memory.
>
> This can either be done configured in /etc/sysconfig/comoonics-chroot
> installed via comoonics-bootimage-compat (or something use: yum search
> comoonics-bootimage) or with the cluster.conf section .
>
>    <chrootenv mountpoint="/var/comoonics/chroot" fstype="ext3"
>                        device="/dev/vg_local/lv_chroot"
>                        chrootdir="/var/comoonics/chroot"/>
>
> All services needed for the cluster outside the sharedroot will be running
> there.

So, it's effectively an initrd replacement? Doesn't the initrd get 
de-allocated once the shared root is mounted?

Gordan