Bug 121866 – new-kernel-pkg doesn't check that kernel supports large enough initrd

Bug 121866 - new-kernel-pkg doesn't check that kernel supports large enough initrd

Summary:	new-kernel-pkg doesn't check that kernel supports large enough initrd

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	mkinitrd (Show other bugs)
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Version:	1
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Jeremy Katz
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	2004-04-28 14:59 EDT by Mark Frazer
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:10 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-08-02 17:56:49 EDT
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Description Mark Frazer 2004-04-28 14:59:02 EDT

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Description of problem:
When installing a linus kernel, 'make install' runs
/sbin/installkernel which then runs /sbin/new-kernel-pkg

/sbin/new-kernel-pkg should check that the .config for the current
kernel contains CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y and that
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE is set to be >= the size of the uncompressed
initrd that mkinitrd creates.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mkinitrd-3.5.14-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  install a linus kernel from kernel.org
2.  use the default ram disk size
3.  reboot

Additional info:

There are a lot of hits on this topic if you google for "VFS: Cannot
open root device "LABEL=/" or unknown-block(0,0)", but not too many
correct answers.  It would be nice if Fedora told people not intimate
with kernel configuration that they had made a mistake.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-08-02 17:56:49 EDT

With 2.6 kernels and mkinitrd 4.x, we'll instead create an initramfs
which doesn't have this requirement.

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