initrd and fc3

initrd and fc3

[rich turner]

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?

Re: initrd and fc3

[Matan Peled]

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

Re: initrd and fc3

[rich turner]

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 11:43, Matan Peled wrote:
> 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?
i agree that this isnt the proper place for this topic if it is only
related to fc3.
> 
> 
> Is the bug reproducible on a vanilla kernel.org kernel?
i am doing this now. if this is reproducable in vanilla 2.6.9 then i
will let the list know.
> 
> - Mif
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Re: initrd and fc3

[Valdis.Kletnieks]

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On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 11:28:01 PST, rich turner said:

(off-list reply)

> 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.

Are you *sure* linuxrc isn't run at all?

You might want to run a test 'mkinitrd' and look at what FC3 expects to find
in there (yes, it generates a cpio archive, just extract it into a scratch
directory), then compare that to your initrd and see if you're missing something
(permissions, a directory, etc).

It's possible that the linuxrc is running, not outputting anything to the
console, and hitting an error that causes further progress to fail, making it
LOOK like it's not running at all.

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Re: initrd and fc3

[Valdis.Kletnieks]

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On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 15:48:05 EST, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu said:

> (off-list reply)

Or it would have been, if I had hit "reply" instead of "reply all".

And barring that, it *still* would have been, if I hadn't noticed the
cc:, removed it, and then managed to paste it back in again.

Argh.  Good thing I'm not trying to write code today. :)

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