<div dir="ltr">Hi Narcis,<div><br></div><div> Just came across this, which you may find interesting. Removing systemd took Devuan two years. <a href="http://troubleshooters.com/linux/systemd/bikebrakes.htm">http://troubleshooters.com/linux/systemd/bikebrakes.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>-Alex</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 10:38 PM, Narcis Garcia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:informatica@actiu.net" target="_blank">informatica@actiu.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Alexey, Vasily, you were wrong.<br>
The only barrier in Debian 8 is systemd, and the only additional barrier<br>
in Debian 9 is default Ext4 feature "64bit".<br>
<br>
Following the initrd/mount message, I applied a comment from StalkR:<br>
upgrading from Debian 8.<br>
I've installed a clean Debain 8 (with Ext4), upgraded to Debian 9, and<br>
then OpenVZ 6 installs and works (without compiling anything).<br>
<br>
<a href="https://openvz.org/Installation_on_Debian_9" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://openvz.org/<wbr>Installation_on_Debian_9</a><br>
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El 11/07/17 a les 12:24, Alexey Zilber ha escrit:<br>
<span class="">> It won't work. Please go through the two earlier responses. Debian 9<br>
> doesn't use initrd, so it will never work.<br>
> Ext4 version is the least of your provlems.<br>
><br>
> On Jul 11, 2017 6:06 PM, "Narcis Garcia" <<a href="mailto:informatica@actiu.net">informatica@actiu.net</a><br>
</span><div><div class="h5">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:informatica@actiu.net">informatica@actiu.net</a>><wbr>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> I've debugged initrd steps, and localized an error in this action:<br>
> $ mount -r -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /root<br>
> EXT4-fs (sda1): error loading journal<br>
> mount: Invalid argument<br>
><br>
> If I try there same command without readonly option:<br>
> $ mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /root<br>
> EXT4-fs (sda1): couldn't mount RDWR because of unsupported optional<br>
> features (400)<br>
> mount: Invalid argument<br>
><br>
> I see that Debian 9 installer formats Ext4 with two extra features that<br>
> Debian 8 didn't:<br>
> 64bit metadata_csum<br>
><br>
> Does anybody know how to "downgrade" Ext4 to remove those 2 features?<br>
><br>
><br>
> El 08/07/17 a les 16:13, Narcis Garcia ha escrit:<br>
> > Install procedure:<br>
> ><br>
> > RepoFile=/etc/apt/sources.<wbr>list.d/openvz.list<br>
> > RepoUrl=<a href="http://download.openvz.org/debian" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://download.<wbr>openvz.org/debian</a><br>
> <<a href="http://download.openvz.org/debian" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://download.openvz.org/<wbr>debian</a>><br>
> > echo "deb $RepoUrl jessie main" | sudo tee "$RepoFile"<br>
> > echo "deb $RepoUrl wheezy main" | sudo tee -a "$RepoFile"<br>
> > wget -qO - <a href="http://ftp.openvz.org/debian/archive.key" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ftp.openvz.org/debian/<wbr>archive.key</a><br>
> <<a href="http://ftp.openvz.org/debian/archive.key" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ftp.openvz.org/debian/<wbr>archive.key</a>> | sudo apt-key add -<br>
> > sudo apt --allow-unauthenticated update<br>
> > KPackage="linux-image-openvz-$<wbr>(dpkg --print-architecture)"<br>
> > sudo apt --install-recommends install $KPackage ploop initramfs-tools<br>
> > if [ ! -d /vz ] ; then sudo ln -s /var/lib/vz/ /vz ; fi<br>
> > sudo reboot<br>
> ><br>
> > Attaching screenshots.<br>
> > - Tested with 042stab123.8 and 042stab123.9<br>
> > - Tested with amd64 binaries<br>
> > - Tested both in virtual machine and real hardware<br>
> > - Tested both with single plain ext4 partition (sda1 on /) and<br>
> with LVM<br>
> > layers.<br>
> > - initrd works, next boot stage not (fstab).<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
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