Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 309651
f7: mkinitrd doesn't include nosegneg libraries for xen initrd
Last modified: 2008-04-25 07:00:50 EDT
The problem reported on bug #244730 is present on Fedora 7. +++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #244730 +++ As reported on bug #243756 (comment #14), the initrd generated for xen kernels is not including the nosegneg libraries, that are required when running xen kernels. There is code on mkinitrd that is supposed to always use the nosegneg libraries, but it is not working. The following snipped is from mkinitrd-6.0.9-7. # Prefer nosegneg libs over direct segment accesses on i686. if [ -f "$LIBDIR/i686/nosegneg/$BASE" ]; then FILE="$LIBDIR/i686/nosegneg/$BASE" [...] Not using the nosegneg libraries may cause the "4gb seg fixup" messages reported on bug #215201. This bug is probably present on Fedora Core 6 and Fedora 7, also. -- Additional comment from ehabkost@redhat.com on 2007-06-18 16:20 EST -- Created an attachment (id=157323) New version of mkinitrd-6.0.9-nosegneg.patch that fixes the problem -- Additional comment from pjones@redhat.com on 2007-07-31 17:10 EST -- Modified in mkinitrd-6.0.10-1 .
I am sorry, pjones said there will be no backporting of this to F7 mkinitrd. I am curious, does having nosegneg in the initrd have any effect *after* initrd? Doesn't this only make the initrd part less noisy and slightly faster?
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