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From: Matan Peled <chaosite@gmail.com>
To: rich turner <rich@storix.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: initrd and fc3
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:43:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41B8AAF9.6000807@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1102620480.19320.8.camel@rich>

rich turner wrote:

>i am testing fc3 by using an old-school initrd. by old-school i mean not
>the new initramfs/cpio type initrd. the process i use to create the
>initrd works for all other distributions (suse, mandrake, debian, fc2,
>2.2.x, 2.4.x, 2.6.x, etc) but fails with fc3 (2.6.9-1.667).
>
>upon system boot, the kernel executes, checks to see if the initrd is
>initramfs (it isnt), finds the initrd (ext2), mounts it, and then
>immediately exits without executing linuxrc.
>
>anyone have any ideas as to why linuxrc is not being executed?
>
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You pretty much deduced the bug is in FC3, and not the general kernel...

So why exactly is this on topic on LKML?


Is the bug reproducible on a vanilla kernel.org kernel?

- Mif


  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-09 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-09 19:28 initrd and fc3 rich turner
2004-12-09 19:43 ` Matan Peled [this message]
2004-12-09 19:59   ` rich turner
2004-12-09 20:48 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-12-09 20:55   ` Valdis.Kletnieks

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