Anyone successfully booted a custom kernel on Fedora 17?

Anyone successfully booted a custom kernel on Fedora 17?

[Ben Greear]

This is probably a Fedora 17 issue..but hoping someone will have mercy on me :)

I upgraded a system to Fedora 17 (from 16), and now none of my
custom-built kernels are booting.  I'm compiling the kernels on
another machine, running the 'make modules install', tarring everything
up, and then running 'mkinitrd ...' after un-tarring on the F17 machine.

The F17 machine hangs right before it should begin starting services.

I tried 3.3.7+, 3.0.32+, etc.  The kernels that come with F17 boot fine.

If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

Re: Anyone successfully booted a custom kernel on Fedora 17?

[Ben Greear]

On 05/30/2012 05:16 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
> This is probably a Fedora 17 issue..but hoping someone will have mercy on me :)

Must be something to do with my kernel config or how I generate
the initrd with mkinitrd:  I tried vanilla 3.3.7 compiled and
installed with:

Copy Fedora kernel config to ./config
make -j8 bzImage modules
make modules_install
make install

(and fixed up grub2)
and it booted just fine.

Thanks,
Ben


>
> I upgraded a system to Fedora 17 (from 16), and now none of my
> custom-built kernels are booting. I'm compiling the kernels on
> another machine, running the 'make modules install', tarring everything
> up, and then running 'mkinitrd ...' after un-tarring on the F17 machine.
>
> The F17 machine hangs right before it should begin starting services.
>
> I tried 3.3.7+, 3.0.32+, etc. The kernels that come with F17 boot fine.
>
> If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>


-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

Re: Anyone successfully booted a custom kernel on Fedora 17?

[valdis.kletnieks]

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On Wed, 30 May 2012 20:15:35 -0700, Ben Greear said:
> On 05/30/2012 05:16 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
> > This is probably a Fedora 17 issue..but hoping someone will have mercy on me :)
>
> Must be something to do with my kernel config or how I generate
> the initrd with mkinitrd:

For what it's worth, over on the Rawhide side of the fence, dracut-018-74
builds bad initramfs images for me,while dracut-081-53 works.  Not sure
what release is in the F17 updates repository.  I'm going to file a bug report
with Fedora soon as I figure out what -74 is doing wrong.

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Re: Anyone successfully booted a custom kernel on Fedora 17?

[Ben Greear]

On 05/31/2012 05:28 PM, valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2012 20:15:35 -0700, Ben Greear said:
>> On 05/30/2012 05:16 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
>>> This is probably a Fedora 17 issue..but hoping someone will have mercy on me :)
>>
>> Must be something to do with my kernel config or how I generate
>> the initrd with mkinitrd:
>
> For what it's worth, over on the Rawhide side of the fence, dracut-018-74
> builds bad initramfs images for me,while dracut-081-53 works.  Not sure
> what release is in the F17 updates repository.  I'm going to file a bug report
> with Fedora soon as I figure out what -74 is doing wrong.

At least my problem appears to be some missing feature in the kernel, probably
one of the 'fooFS' things releated to ramdisk and/or early startup.
I enabled several things I found in the F17 .config file that were not in my
config file, and now my kernel boots, at least when I
build and install it on the F17 machine.

I'm going to try building on F13 and just (re)making the initrd on
F17 like I have been for all other distributions, but that will be
a day or two..got a release to shove out the door first!

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

Re: Anyone successfully booted a custom kernel on Fedora 17?

Hi,

On 31 May 2012 20:45, Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
> On 05/31/2012 05:28 PM, valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 30 May 2012 20:15:35 -0700, Ben Greear said:
>>>
>>> On 05/30/2012 05:16 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This is probably a Fedora 17 issue..but hoping someone will have mercy
>>>> on me :)
>>>
>>>
>>> Must be something to do with my kernel config or how I generate
>>> the initrd with mkinitrd:
>>
>>
>> For what it's worth, over on the Rawhide side of the fence, dracut-018-74
>> builds bad initramfs images for me,while dracut-081-53 works.  Not sure
>> what release is in the F17 updates repository.  I'm going to file a bug
>> report
>> with Fedora soon as I figure out what -74 is doing wrong.
>
>
> At least my problem appears to be some missing feature in the kernel,
> probably
> one of the 'fooFS' things releated to ramdisk and/or early startup.
> I enabled several things I found in the F17 .config file that were not in my
> config file, and now my kernel boots, at least when I
> build and install it on the F17 machine.
>
> I'm going to try building on F13 and just (re)making the initrd on
> F17 like I have been for all other distributions, but that will be
> a day or two..got a release to shove out the door first!
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
> --
> Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
> Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com
>
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This thread might help you folks.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/18/230
Urgent: x86-32 and GNU ld 2.22.52.0.1

Happy bug hunting
-p

Re: Anyone successfully booted a custom kernel on Fedora 17?

[valdis.kletnieks]

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On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 05:49:57 -0400,   said:

> This thread might help you folks.
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/18/230
> Urgent: x86-32 and GNU ld 2.22.52.0.1

x86_64 here, so I doubt that's the problem. That, and both my working and
broken kernels were build with binutils 2.22.52.0.3 - working with gcc 4.6.2
and busted with 4.7.0.

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