On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Thomas Bächler
Going into testing in a few minutes:
mkinitcpio changes: - Finally fix a bug where required HID modules were missing - Add a new COMPRESSION option that accepts gzip, lzma and bzip2 parameters (gzip is the default, the others are only supported on 2.6.30 and later) - Add a new poll_device function that waits for a block device to appear. This is used in the init function and the resume hook, with rootdelay as a maximum timeout (default to 10 seconds) - Remove the unmaintained and untested modload hook - Remove the runtime filesystems hook - Rework the code that checks whether a root device has been found, don't reboot when exiting the emergency shell, but try to continue. - Due to the new poll_device behaviour, the usb and fw runtime hooks are no longer required, remove them - Parse arguments to init properly, using the "$@" parameter from the commandline the kernel generated - also needs the new fix in the latest kinit from testing (this allows us to use init=/bin/sh again) - Adjust for the latest filesystem/module-init-tools changes - Fix an autodetection bug that would sometimes omit some filesystems
cryptsetup changes: - Use poll_device when waiting for the encrypted device and the (optional) key container device (default to rootdelay), added conflicts=(mkinitcpio<0.5.25) - Add a warning if the deprecated root= syntax is used on the commandline
I'm experience a small problem (it might be due to the changes you made.). On my i686 system with lvm, after the lvm group has been activated, I get a: "Waiting 10 seconds for device fe00" message. After the timeout, it says that "root device fe00 doesn't exits attempting to create it /bin/mknod /dev/root b 254 0" The booting continues successfully and everything seems to be working fine except I've noticed that I have a /dev/root symlink that points to a non-existing fe00 device. I don't know if this is expected because of the new poll_device function or if there's another problem elsewhere. BTW, this system use lilo in case it's related.