From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261594AbULITn7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:43:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261597AbULITn7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:43:59 -0500 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.193]:9852 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261594AbULITn4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:43:56 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:return-path:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:x-enigmail-supports:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=gttCik6jrPPQ+uhMn384HGO+r4lyYkd2OkgotQb8MwNBwy5MFx6tHb0wRbJef4L0E+uuUS8tFXp5lpjUq0ZEeC27tzNyV0YBoRq8MUa3HjLI1zONuyiWzc4+R3AwNm3zpKJcB0tDUagXF4785EtPazn4nMmETtnUzKowGOJBuHg= Message-ID: <41B8AAF9.6000807@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:43:53 +0200 From: Matan Peled User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rich turner CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: initrd and fc3 References: <1102620480.19320.8.camel@rich> In-Reply-To: <1102620480.19320.8.camel@rich> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > 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