Bug 248979 – initrd no longer works, switch to initramfs

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Bug 248979 - initrd no longer works, switch to initramfs

Summary:	initrd no longer works, switch to initramfs

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	system-config-netboot (Show other bugs)
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Version:	rawhide
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Radek Brich
QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported:	2007-07-19 19:50 EDT by Pierre Ossman
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:12 EST (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2007-10-17 06:22:33 EDT
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initramfs.patch (2.76 KB, patch) 2007-07-19 19:50 EDT, Pierre Ossman	no flags	Details \| Diff
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Description Pierre Ossman 2007-07-19 19:50:26 EDT

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 19:50:26 EDT

Created attachment 159624 [details]
initramfs.patch

Comment 2 Pierre Ossman 2007-07-19 20:18:43 EDT

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 17:40:32 EDT

Trying to track down proper system-config-netboot maintainer.

Comment 4 Pierre Ossman 2007-08-10 07:01:17 EDT

How's that hunting going, Jesse? :)

Comment 5 Jesse Keating 2007-08-10 07:15:29 EDT

fleite actually owns this.  Not me.

Comment 6 Radek Brich 2007-10-17 06:22:33 EDT

fixed in 0.1.42

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