Description of problem:

When I installed from the fedora 10 kde live cd, I installed to a small, temporary /boot partition (with the intention of moving to an existing boot partition that was unavailable at the time). However, this turned out to be too small and the initrd was truncated - and I didn't discover the problem until I tried to boot.

I (rpm) verified the kernel package to be good from a rescue environment, and compared the size of the initrd with some known good ones and found it to be substantially smaller. Furthermore, attempting to decompress the initrd with gunzip failed with the message "unexpected end of file".

Moving the kernel etc. to an 100MB boot partition and re-generating the initrd was enough to solve the problem.


How reproducible:

* Install fedora 10 with an 8MB boot partition

Actual results:

* Anaconda completes, subsequent boot fails.

Expected results:

* Anaconda complains at truncated initrd, maybe directs user back to partition chooser.


Additional info:

$ ll initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img
-rw------- 1 root root 2695168 2009-01-18 23:05 initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img

# ll /boot/initrd-2.6.2*                                        
-rw------- 1 root root 3699558 2009-01-27 12:59 /boot/initrd-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686.img
-rw------- 1 root root 3699536 2009-02-19 12:29 /boot/initrd-2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686.img
-rw------- 1 root root 3700999 2009-03-03 10:04 /boot/initrd-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686.img

# df /dev/sda2
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2                 7776      7776         0 100% /mnt/smallboot

I still have the truncated initrd, so I can attach it if that's interesting.