Bug 797500

Summary:	Boot hangs on message "Loading initial ramdisk"
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Huub <huubvanniekerk>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	16	CC:	gansalmon, itamar, jforbes, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda
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Description Huub 2012-02-26 08:15:34 UTC

Description of problem:
When I boot kernel kernel-3.2.7-1.fc16.i686, the message "Loading initial ramdisk" is displayed and nothing else happens. Going back to kernel-3.2.6-3.fc16.i686 gives no problem.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-3.2.7-1.fc16.i686

How reproducible:
Boot

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Additional info:
Acer Aspire 1350, Athlon XP-M

Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2012-02-27 14:33:36 UTC

Is there an initramfs-3.2.7-1.fc16 file in /boot?  Is it a non-zero size?

Do you get more output if you remove the 'rhgb' and 'quiet' options on the kernel command line in grub?

Comment 2 Huub 2012-02-27 18:44:35 UTC

The initramfs-3.2.7-1.fc16 is present and it's of non-zero size: 16452604. However, for some reason the kernel now does boot normally. I tried a couple of times and so far I can't reproduce the hanging anymore. I will keep a close eye to it though.

Comment 3 Justin M. Forbes 2012-02-29 22:16:52 UTC

Since this appears to be working now, I am going to close this bug. Please feel free to reopen if it starts happening again.