Bug 166217
| Summary: | initrd may not be large enough for the kernel-smp and required modules | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Jason Vas Dias <jvdias> |
| Component: | system-config-netboot | Assignee: | Jason Vas Dias <jvdias> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4.0 | CC: | pkmartin |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | RHBA-2005-484 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-10-05 13:50:08 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 149000, 156322, 166378 | ||
This bug is now fixed with system-config-netboot-0.1.28-1_EL4, available from: http://people.redhat.com/~jvdias/system-config-netboot/RHEL-4 This version now computes the size of the initrd dynamically and can successfully create a bootable initrd with the current RHEL-4 SMP kernel. Please try out this version and let me know of any issues - thanks . 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-2005-484.html |
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: