I made the changes you mentioned, and have re-generated the initrd, and rebooted the node; I also run "dmesg|grep xcat", but I couldn't get anything. On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Harald Hoyer <harald@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/17/2010 02:59 PM, Min Jun,Xi wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am using the NFS directory as the root file system, and it works >> now. I have worked to make the warning/error messages away during the >> node is booting up. Now, I am trying to create and add my own dracut >> modules, but I find it doesn't run during the node is booting up. >> >> I created one directory named "48xcat", and there're 5 files in it: >> >> "check install premount prepivot xcatroot" >> >> All of them are simple, the contents of "install" is: >> " >> #!/bin/sh >> echo "installing xcat dracut modules..." >> dracut_install mount umount >> inst "$moddir/xcatroot" "/sbin/xcatroot" >> inst_hook pre-mount 10 "$moddir/premount" >> inst_hook pre-pivot 88 "$moddir/prepivot" >> " >> premount will mount another NFS directory to the mount point in the >> file system, like this: >> " >> #!/bin/sh >> echo "in pre-mouting script" >> mount 192.168.11.107:/tftpboot /.statelite/ro >> " >> prepivot only has one line to echo something there. >> >> xcatroot only has several lines: >> " >> #!/bin/sh >> echo "xcatroot is running..." >> #inject new exit_if_exists >> echo 'settle_exit_if_exits="--exit-if-exists=/dev/root"; rm >> "$job"'> /initqueue/xcat.sh >> > /initqueue/work >> " >> Then, I added the module "xcat" into dracut.conf, and finally I >> created the initrd.gz file by the "dracut" command, I also added >> "rdshell rdinfo rdinitdebug" into the kernel commandline parameters, >> however when the node was booting up, I couldn't see the scripts in my >> own "xcat" module run. >> Can anyone tell me what's wrong here? Thank you in advance. Is there >> some naming restrictions in the module? >> -- >> best regards, >> Xi Minjun >> xCAT Development Team Member in CDL,IBM >> Notes ID: Min Jun Xi/China/IBM/ > > what's the output of: > $ lsinitrd <image file> | grep xcat > > and please rename "premount" to something like "xcat-premount" > > then you can do in the dracut shell after booting with "rdinitdebug": > > $ dmesg |grep xcat > -- best regards, Xi Minjun xCAT Development Team Member in CDL,IBM Notes ID: Min Jun Xi/China/IBM/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
