Bug 133684
| Summary: | unable to open an initial console - ppc only | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Colin Charles <byte> | ||||
| Component: | mkinitrd | Assignee: | Peter Jones <pjones> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | dwmw2, harald, katzj, nobody+pnasrat, notting | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | powerpc | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2005-01-11 14:34:05 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 121179, 123268, 136451 | ||||||
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Description
Colin Charles
2004-09-26 08:57:16 UTC
which kernel version? /kernel-2.6.8-1.541.ppc.rpm Latest as of Rawhide then Reproduced with today's rawhide on peach.cambridge.redhat.com Can reproduce with the .603 kernel, on a fresh rawhide latest install, from the 0910 tree. Trying dwmw2's suggestion on irc to mknod /mnt/sysimage/dev/console c 5 1 makes it boot further (yay!), but more errors are thrown, as per the graphic attachment Created attachment 104977 [details]
shot of the breakage
after adding /dev/console manually. Otherwise, there is just the error that
/dev/console isn't found as per the bug report, and it doesn't boot further
Disable the bloody stupid mount-by-label. Use device names in your fstab and on your kernel command line. Mount by label is never going to help you much on a desktop-class system. It's only really appropriate on big servers where you're likely to be moving discs around. On a desktop-class system it'll only offer one more likely point of failure, like this. this all looks like /dev is not a mounted tmpfs, which should happen in initramfs, produced by mkinitrd. I've gotten this, too. The reason (and thus the fix) was that yaboot.conf did not contain an "initrd=" line. Adding that makes it work (rawhide as of 24 Oct. 2004) Ralf, in comment #10, fresh install on the 28th Oct on iMac DV SE, yaboot.conf had an initrd line (i.e. the default one now has it too - I remember adding it before), and it still broke ! Though I should add, /dev/console is being created. When logged into "linux rescue" mode, I can see quite the few entries in /mnt/sysimage/dev (~195 or so). So why it still complains, I'm wondering SELinux is enabled, just in case that makes a difference (selinux=0 when booting didn't seem to) Rawhide latest (okay, its just FC3), and the install went fine, got the usualy sillyness for unable to find inital console, even with the initrd in /etc/yaboot.conf. Tried with the sysmap= option too Following Harald's udev page to actually start without an initrd, I did that, rebooted with selinux=0, and the mac's happy So for some reason, yaboot isn't recognising the initrd properly ? I guess its becoming less of a udev "bug", and might only seem prevalent in this iMac DV SE (i'll fiddle w/it on an iBook later) Okay, I opened this bug, and its fixed in the testing tree that we released as FC-3 that sits on fedoraproject.org so I'm going to close this as currentrelease as I don't think it bothers anyone, any longer. yaboot boots fine when an intird= is specified. |