Bug 169712 - mkinitrd breaks processing of kernel boot arguments
Summary: mkinitrd breaks processing of kernel boot arguments
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mkinitrd
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-10-01 20:55 UTC by Michal Jaegermann
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 5.0.4-1
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Last Closed: 2005-10-07 16:45:33 UTC
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2005-10-01 20:55:08 UTC
Description of problem:

With initrd created with mkinitrd 5.0.2-1 or 5.0.3-1 arguments like
bootlevel are ignored and a machine boots always to what is specified
in /etc/inittab.  This is not the case for an older kernel which I have
here and which is still using initrd done with 5.0.0-1; but if I replace
initrd for this kernel with a new one redone with 5.0.3-1 then an argument
specifying a desired boot level is immediately ignored.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mkinitrd-5.0.2-1 and mkinitrd-5.0.3-1

How reproducible:
always

Comment 1 Sammy 2005-10-03 15:17:48 UTC
I can't even build a initrd image with older versions of 2.6.13 kernels. I am getting 
 
"cannot find module modprobe (aborting)" 
 
message and nothing is produced. Version 5.0.0 works perfectly but 5.0.2 and .3 does not. 
 
If this is due to kernel incompatibility then there should be a Requisite of some sort. 
Thanks 

Comment 2 Peter Jones 2005-10-07 16:45:33 UTC
mkinitrd-5.0.4-1 should have command line parsing working again.


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