Bug 166378

Summary:	initrd may not be large enough for the kernel-smp and required modules
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Jason Vas Dias <jvdias>
Component:	redhat-config-netboot	Assignee:	Jason Vas Dias <jvdias>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.0	CC:	pkmartin
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	RHBA-2005-486	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2005-09-28 19:39:28 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	166217
Bug Blocks:	156320

Description Jason Vas Dias 2005-08-19 21:45:33 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #166217 +++

Description of problem:

As reported in Issue Tracker #68011, the initrd made by the updateDiskless
script may not be large enough to hold the kernel-smp and required modules:

---- Additional Comments From pkmartin.com  2005-08-17 14:44 EDT -------
I have found a few more issues with the current fix that I think need looking at.

1) building diskless boot os fails with a popup message
      when building diskless os with gui tool, and useing the
      smp kernel the failure bubble/popup says:

      /bin/tar: lib/modules/2.6.9-11.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/ds.ko:
      Wrote ony 8192 of 9728 bytes
      /bin/tar: skipping to next header
      /bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
      Copying modules to initrd failed


      non smp kernel choice is successful

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ALL

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
Choose to configure a PXE boot environment for a large smp kernel
  
Actual results:
initrd is too small; configuration fails

Expected results:
configuration should succeed

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jason Vas Dias 2005-08-19 21:49:29 UTC

This bug is fixed with redhat-config-netboot-0.1.26-1_EL3, associated with
errata RHBA-2005:486 .

Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-09-28 19:39:30 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2005-486.html