Bug 54973 - Kernel panic relating to initrd
Summary: Kernel panic relating to initrd
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: mkinitrd
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-10-23 21:15 UTC by Nathan G. Grennan
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-12-03 20:19:50 UTC
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Description Nathan G. Grennan 2001-10-23 21:15:22 UTC
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Description of problem:
If /initrd is deleted the computer will not finish booting up after a
reboot. It will kernel panic with a message about setting init=

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rm /initrd
2. Reboot
3. See error message
	

Actual Results:  I saw the error message

Expected Results:  To see the error message

Additional info:

This is using kernel-2.4.7-10

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-10-29 17:46:16 UTC
Don't do that, then. It's required.

Comment 2 Frank Ch. Eigler 2001-12-03 20:19:44 UTC
The problem is that, as outlined in bug 54878, this situation can arise
if RHN updates are incompletely applied.  It would be appropriate to
tolerate this situation by creating /initrd if necessary, perhaps
on each mkinitrd run, or at least during mkinitrd rpm installation.


Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2001-12-03 20:25:30 UTC
That's what the RPM requirement is for. I don't mean to be abrubt, but if you
break your dependencies, or remove random directories, you shouldn't be
surprised if something breaks.

Comment 4 Frank Ch. Eigler 2001-12-03 21:04:46 UTC
I wouldn't have broken the dependencies if another way around
odd RPM packaging was eminently available.  In any case, this
particular situation is not hard to correct.  Hell, it's dead
easy to detect: make mkinitrd assert the existence of this
directory, much like it would abort if would fail to find some
modules from modules.conf.


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