Bug 129836

Description of problem: 
With an initrd created by recent versions of mkinitrd, boot from a 
"mkbootdisk --iso"-created boot CD fails on my system.  Relevant bit 
of boot messages (verbose version using nash-test for more info): 
 
Switching to new root 
exec of init (/sbin/init) failed!!!: 14 
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 
 
Now unless I'm looking in the wrong header file, 14 is EFAULT, which 
from the execve man page means "filename points outside your 
accessible address space".  I wish that made sense to me... 
 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 
 
I've had this problem from current mkinitrd (4.0.5) back at least as 
far as 4.0.3.  4.0.0 worked fine (at least in this regard).  Not sure 
about 4.0.1 or 4.0.2; if you can point me to a place I can get those 
old versions, I'd be happy to retest with them. 
 
How reproducible: 
 
Using an affected version of mkinitrd, on my system, always.  
Unfortunately I have no idea which aspects of my system's 
configuration are causing the behavior.  I always boot off CD, having 
no boot partition configured, so I don't know if the CD booting is 
actually a factor. 
 
Additional info: 
 
Here's what things look like once I'm successfully booted: 
$ cat /etc/fstab 
LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        
1 1 
/dev/sda2               /media/temp             ext3    defaults        
1 2 
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  
gid=5,mode=620  0 0 
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        
0 0 
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        
0 0 
/dev/sda1               swap                    swap    defaults        
0 0 
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    
noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 
/dev/hdc                /mnt/cdrom              auto    user            
0 0 
none                    /var/lib/rpc_pipes      rpc_pipefs defaults 0 
0 
 
$ mount 
/dev/md0 on / type ext3 (rw) 
none on /proc type proc (rw) 
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) 
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) 
/dev/sda2 on /media/temp type ext3 (rw) 
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) 
/dev/hdc on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev) 
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) 
none on /var/lib/rpc_pipes type rpc_pipefs (rw)