From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11 Description of problem: I was running FC6 and yum upgraded to F8. The latest FC6 kernel version worked fine. Now that I am on F8 I can not run an F8 kernel since they always fail to boot. I am still running the latest FC6 kernel (everything else is F8). Every new F8 kernel I install has the same problem. I've extracted the initrd files and have tried a few things. If I do clean F8 installs it works every time (as you would expect) so I have some legacy problem coming from my FC6 upgrade. I have tried PAE and non-PAE kernels with the same result. My FC6 upgrade was direct to F8 but I have tried FC6 -> F7 -> F8 as well with no luck. The screenshot (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=15741) shows the error. "init[1]: segfault at 00000006 eip 00000006 esp bf87a7e8 error 4" I have now created a cut down F8 virtual machine under Vmware and copied the faulty initrd file to it. The fault is now reproducible within the VM. I did find that if I downgraded nash and mkinitrd to an FC6 version and then installed F8 kernels that they would boot and/or get a lot further in the boot process. But I have no idea why mkinitrd and nash from F8 create an initrd for me that is not bootable. Screenshot of this new error is at http://forums.fedoraforum.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=16420. I suspect that this would never work any way due to dependencies but it does appear to show that changing mkinitrd fixes the initial fault. I have posted the faulty initrd file at http://www.edcint.co.nz/initrd-2.6.24.4-64.fc8.img This does appear to be similar to the following bugs: 336161: I have the bug in the version that was released as the fix for this bug. 411691: This bug stops the boot process in the same place, except that I've already fixed the problem I had with the ld libraries. 440091: Sounds very close but I've already fixed up the mismatching of ld.so and libc. I would love to get my hands on a later release of mkinitrd for F8. I note that mkinitrd for F9 is has much later versions available - where are the ones for F8? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mkinitrd-5.1.19.0.3-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Try booting the faulty initrd described above Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional info:
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