I just wanted to say that my system is now working as expected as well. I tested the latest release(043) successfully booting live image. I have no idea what update fixed the issues I had before with dracut. On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Harald Hoyer <harald@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 18.07.2015 15:27, Ali H. Caliskan wrote: >> dracut-dmsquash-generator creates $GENERATOR_DIR/sysroot.mount and >> dracut-rootfs-generator doesn't touch it but systemd-fstab-generator >> does overwrite the sysroot.mount file which causes error like "Timed >> out waiting for device dev-mapper-live\x2drw.device." I don't know if >> it can be resolved by dracut or if systemd should skip writing >> sysroot.mount if it already exists. >> >> I'm able to boot with rd.live.image by letting >> dracut-dmsquash-generator create sysroot.mount.new and then tell >> dracut-rootfs-generator to sysmlink sysroot.mount.new to >> initrd-root-fs.target.requires/sysroot.mount. Also I had to remove "if >> [ -z "$DRACUT_SYSTEMD" ]; then" condition from the >> dmsquash-live-root.sh in order to mount LiveOS/rootfs.img into >> /sysroot directory. > > > Hmm, > > according to the man page systemd.generator: > > SYNOPSIS > /path/to/generator normal-dir early-dir late-dir > > > 1. normal-dir > > argv[1] may be used to override unit files in /usr, but not those in > /etc. This means that unit files placed in this directory take precedence > over vendor unit configuration but not over native > user/administrator unit configuration. > > 2. early-dir > > argv[2] may be used to override unit files in /usr and in /etc. This > means that unit files placed in this directory take precedence over all > configuration, both vendor and user/administrator. > > 3. late-dir > > argv[3] may be used to extend the unit file tree without overriding > any other unit files. Any native configuration files supplied by the > vendor or user/administrator take precedence over the generated ones > placed in this directory. > > > systemd-fstab-generator uses argv[1], so this is normal-dir > <https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/fstab-generator/fstab-generator.c#L653> > > dmsquash-generator.sh uses argv[2], so this is early-dir > <https://github.com/haraldh/dracut/blob/master/modules.d/90dmsquash-live/dmsquash-generator.sh#L53> > > > If I run test/TEST-16-DMSQUASH and rd.break before switch-root, I can see > > switch_root:/run/systemd# find generator.early/ > generator.early/ > generator.early/dev-mapper-live\x2drw.device.d > generator.early/dev-mapper-live\x2drw.device.d/timeout.conf > generator.early/sysroot.mount > switch_root:/run/systemd# find generator > generator > generator/initrd-root-fs.target.requires > generator/initrd-root-fs.target.requires/sysroot.mount > generator/sysroot.mount > > > # systemctl show sysroot.mount |grep Path > FragmentPath=/run/systemd/generator.early/sysroot.mount > > # cat generator.early/sysroot.mount > [Unit] > Before=initrd-root-fs.target > [Mount] > Where=/sysroot > What=/dev/mapper/live-rw > > # cat generator/sysroot.mount > # Automatically generated by systemd-fstab-generator > > [Unit] > SourcePath=/proc/cmdline > Documentation=man:fstab(5) man:systemd-fstab-generator(8) > Before=initrd-root-fs.target > > [Mount] > What=live:CDLABEL=LiveCD > Where=/sysroot > Options=rw > > > So, works as expected. The question is, why is your system different? -- 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
