This turns out to be a kernel issue, either upstream or in Ubuntu. Bisected to the following, which was released in 3.12.
commit 16203a7a9422315bc929461503e3a046459ea5ff Author: Rob Landley <r...@landley.net> Date: Wed Sep 11 14:26:12 2013 -0700 initmpfs: make rootfs use tmpfs when CONFIG_TMPFS enabled Conditionally call the appropriate fs_init function and fill_super functions. Add a use once guard to shmem_init() to simply succeed on a second call. (Note that IS_ENABLED() is a compile time constant so dead code elimination removes unused function calls when CONFIG_TMPFS is disabled.) I agree this is an edge case for tripleO but not so much for general Ironic usage, as admins should be free to declare nodes with as little memory as they want, and DIB produced deploy-ironic ramdisks should be expected to work. ** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1311987 Title: deploy-ironic ramdisks do not boot: Failed to execute /init (error -28) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/diskimage-builder/+bug/1311987/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs