This bug is continued from #429937 In the above bug report, Jeremy Katz introduced a change in mkinitrd which should solve the problems reported in that bug report. However, since that change (mkinitrd-6.0.34-1, http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=41744) my computer became unbootable. These are the last lines which were produced : device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3 device-mapper: ioctl: 4.13.0-ioctl (2007-10-18) initialised: dm-devel device-mapper: table: 253:0 linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument device-mapper: table ioctl failed: No such device or address device-mapper: deps ioctl failed: No such device or address init[1]: segfault at 10 ip 00a5b10a sp bfa1640c error 4 in libdevmapper.so.1.02[a4d000+15000] nash received SIGSEGV! Backtrace (14): /bin/nash[0x805365a] [0x11040c] /usr/lib/libnash.so.6.0.34(nashDmDevGetName+0x5a)[0x11f40e] /usr/lib/libnash.so.6.0.34[0x11b7e7] /usr/lib/libnash.so.6.0.34[0x11b911] /usr/lib/libnash.so.6.0.34(nashBdevIterNext+0x109)[0x11bd9b] /usr/lib/libnash.so.6.0.34[0x11c037] /usr/lib/libnash.so.6.0.34(nashFindFsByName+0x6e)[0x11c130] /usr/lib/libnash.so.6.0.34(nashAGetPathBySpec+0xa5)[0x11c24a] /bin/nash[0x804f2fb] /bin/nash[0x80534c5] /bin/nash[0x8053bcd] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0x16f606] /bin/nash[0x804afa1] If I revert back to mkinitrd-6.0.33-1 and regenerate the initrd.img my system boots fine. This problem is still occuring with mkinitrd-6.0.39-1, http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=43199. My hardware specifications: Pentium 4 2.4Ghz 1GB RAM Fedora Rawhide i386 The motherboard itself only has PATA connections. I've installed a SATA-PCI-controller in my computer. Fedora is installed on a SATA drive. Due to the fact that I can't directly boot off this SATA drive I have a /boot partition on a PATA drive. Another thing I found out is that if I boot anaconda's rescue mode and let it search for existing Linux installations, then anaconda crashes. I think this might be related to this bug. I don't have the exact backtrace anymore, but I can regenerate it if necessary. This was with anaconda-11.4.0.52-1
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Can you try this with 6.0.43-1 please? I expect it's fixed, but it could be a different problem.
Yep, this build fixes my problems. Thanks!