On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 08:47 +0000, John Hodrien wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Jeffrey Law wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure this is a problem with the newer kernels, initrds or > > their subcomponents -- it looks strikingly similar to what I've seen > > booting a 2.6.19.xxxx for stateless. I haven't had the opportunity > > to track down specifically what's wrong yet, but it's definitely on > > my list as I wouldn't want FC7 to go out the door with this problem. > > I can't see how it's not a nash/kernel bug, as the initrd is correctly formed, > and it does fail exactly as previous described. Either the behaviour of the > kernel has changed such that what nash is doing no longer works (and nash can > be fixed) or the kernel's doing something it shouldn't be (and it can be > fixed). It would have helped when initially debugging this if nash had been > properly documented. The man page seems somewhat limited for my tastes. Personally, I'd like to see nash and all its builtin bits disappear. I was once told the reason things were done this way was to keep the initrd size minimal because the memory couldn't be reclaimed. I've also been told that new kernels can reclaim the memory. But that's a battle I'm not going to fight right now.
If I had to hazard a guess it's going to be nash; in theory it should be possible to test nash and the kernel independently of each other. In practice they're sometimes tied together. Ugh. Jeff _______________________________________________ Stateless-list mailing list [email protected] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/stateless-list
