Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 488862
noisy live image boot
Last modified: 2015-01-14 18:22:41 EST
The livecd spews out a few messages during boot before plymouth: Mounting proc filesystem Mounting sysfs filesystem Creating initial /dev Running plymouthd these result from echo statements in the initrd init. These messages aren't seem during a normal system boot (only the live image). The init created by mkliveinitrd and mkinitrd both have these kinds of echo statements. The internal echo handler in nash only writes output if a quiet boot was not requested. However, nash checks the path for a matching command before it runs its own handlers and the mkliveinitrd installs a /bin/echo. Possible fixes include * Remove inst /bin/echo from mkliveinitrd * Remove echo statements from mkliveinitrd * Make nash check internal handlers first * Special case echo or something
This isn't nash's fault. The only bug here is mkliveinitrd installed /bin/echo. When it exists, it takes precedence to the nash built-in echo. We want the built-in echo behavior. Thus the only necessary fix is to remove installation of /bin/echo to the initrd image.
Is there an echo in here? Pretty much what I said, no?
Committed removing /bin/echo
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
This is a mass edit of all mkinitrd bugs. Thanks for taking the time to file this bug report (and/or commenting on it). As you may have heard in Fedora 12 mkinitrd has been replaced by dracut. In Fedora 12 the mkinitrd package is still around as some programs depend on certain libraries it provides, but mkinitrd itself is no longer used. In Fedora 13 mkinitrd will be removed completely. This means that all work on initrd has stopped. Rather then keeping mkinitrd bugs open and giving false hope they might get fixed we are mass closing them, so as to clearly communicate that no more work will be done on mkinitrd. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you are using Fedora 11 and are experiencing a mkinitrd bug you cannot work around, please upgrade to Fedora 12. If you experience problems with the initrd in Fedora 12, please file a bug against dracut.