On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 05:51:27AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sat, 23 Dec 2017 10:35:50 +0100 > "J. Fahrner" <j...@fahrner.name> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I did a dist-upgrade from Devuan Jessie to Devuan Ascii. > > Now I have a long boot wait, same message as described here: > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/368322/long-boot-time-ssd-black-screen-with-blinking-cursor-gave-up-waiting-on-sus > > > > Some problem with initramfs and swap partition. > > How do you know it's with initramfs or swap partition? There's some > reference to a swap file in the earlier referenced URL, but that didn't > fix the problem. > > > Any ideas what caused this, and how to repair? > > The thing that strikes me is that you boot a System Rescue CD disk, > mount all partitions used on your computer, and do a fsck on each to > guarantee no problem with them. > > If you suspect it's your initramfs, one tricky thing is that IIRC your > initramfs has its own fstab,
If that;s the case, it explins why I'm having trouble with my copied Jessie system. > so changing the fstab on your root > partition wouldn't effect the initramfs' fstab. I guess you have to > unzip the initramfs, verify its inittab is OK, change if necessary, and > then rezip. > > People wonder why I don't like initramfs? This is just one of many > possible pathological cases that can exist. This might not be > the case on your computer, but you still have to check for it, and it's > not a quick process. Is there any documentation on what *is* in our Devuan initramfs? It seems like a black hole of mystery to me. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
