I had a super fast but small SSD and didn’t know what to do with it, so I was playing with caching slow spinning LVM drives. It worked pretty good, but I got interrupted and came back a few weeks later to upgrade the OS. I forgot about the caching LVM, updated the packages in preparation for the OS upgrade, then rebooted. The LVM cache modules weren’t in the initfs image and it didn’t boot.

I should know better. I used to roll my own kernels since Slackware 1.0. I’ve had build initfs images for performance tweaks. Ugh!

Where’s my rescue disk?

  • SheeEttin@programming.devEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Aren’t you supposed to add modules by putting them in some config file so they get added automatically?

    Fixing your problem should also be achievable from single-user/rescue mode too, no need for a rescue disk.