Bug 248979 - initrd no longer works, switch to initramfs
Summary: initrd no longer works, switch to initramfs
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: system-config-netboot
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Radek Brich
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-07-19 23:50 UTC by Pierre Ossman
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-10-17 10:22:33 UTC

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initramfs.patch (2.76 KB, patch)
2007-07-19 23:50 UTC, Pierre Ossman 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Pierre Ossman 2007-07-19 23:50:26 UTC 
I'm not sure anyone actually maintains this package, but here goes...

The current kernel in rawhide no longer supports ext2 built-in. So the initrd
that netboot has been using no longer works.

The long term solution is to do what a "normal" boot does, use an initramfs.

Included file changes the build script to create an initramfs instead of an initrd.

(Bug 210773 and bug 210774 can probably be closed with this change aswell)
Comment 1 Pierre Ossman 2007-07-19 23:50:26 UTC 
Created attachment 159624 [details]
initramfs.patch
Comment 2 Pierre Ossman 2007-07-20 00:18:43 UTC 
As you cannot pivot over rootfs, you need to do something like this in the
startup script:

exec /sbin/switch_root -c /dev/console /mnt /sbin/init
Comment 3 Jesse Keating 2007-07-20 21:40:32 UTC 
Trying to track down proper system-config-netboot maintainer.
Comment 4 Pierre Ossman 2007-08-10 11:01:17 UTC 
How's that hunting going, Jesse? :)
Comment 5 Jesse Keating 2007-08-10 11:15:29 UTC 
fleite actually owns this.  Not me.
Comment 6 Radek Brich 2007-10-17 10:22:33 UTC 
fixed in 0.1.42
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