Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: system fails to boot | From | "Zhang, Yanmin" <> | Date | Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:57:07 +0800 |
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On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 14:40 +0800, Jike Song wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Zhang, Yanmin > <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 01:26 +0800, Jike Song wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Zhang, Yanmin > >> <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> wrote: > >> > Jens, > >> > > >> > We run into system boot failure with kernel 2.6.28-rc. We found it on a couple of > >> > machines, including T61 notebook, nehalem machine, and another HPC NX6325 notebook. > >> > All the machines use FedoraCore 8 or FedoraCore 9. With kernel prior to 2.6.28-rc, > >> > system boot doesn't fail. > >> > > >> > I debug it and locate the root cause. Pls. see > >> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11899 > >> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471517 > >> > > >> > >> Hi Yanmin, > >> > >> It seems I still have this problem with -rc6, both root=LABEL and > >> root=/dev/sda8. I have replaced my nash/mkinitrd with patched ones. > > Did you recreate the initrd after updating nash/mkinitrd tools? > > Yes, I run "make install" at first, and found the failure of boot; > Then I recreated initrd manually with mkinitrd/nash (patched by you), > and booted -rc6 again - failed again. Would you like to write down the detailed steps?
> > > What's the boot log? > Sorry I don't have the laptop with me now, will post it this > evening(Ah, only possible if I can get netconsole work). Anyway, > your patches did work for me with -rc4, so I think I'll bisect it. That's good if the boot always fails. But when root=/dev/sdaXXX, system boot fails randomly.
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