Bug 797500 - Boot hangs on message "Loading initial ramdisk"
Summary: Boot hangs on message "Loading initial ramdisk"
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 16
Hardware: athlon
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-02-26 08:15 UTC by Huub
Modified: 2012-02-29 22:16 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-02-29 22:16:52 UTC
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Description Huub 2012-02-26 08:15:34 UTC 
Description of problem:
When I boot kernel kernel-3.2.7-1.fc16.i686, the message "Loading initial ramdisk" is displayed and nothing else happens. Going back to kernel-3.2.6-3.fc16.i686 gives no problem.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-3.2.7-1.fc16.i686

How reproducible:
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Acer Aspire 1350, Athlon XP-M
Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2012-02-27 14:33:36 UTC 
Is there an initramfs-3.2.7-1.fc16 file in /boot?  Is it a non-zero size?

Do you get more output if you remove the 'rhgb' and 'quiet' options on the kernel command line in grub?
Comment 2 Huub 2012-02-27 18:44:35 UTC 
The initramfs-3.2.7-1.fc16 is present and it's of non-zero size: 16452604. However, for some reason the kernel now does boot normally. I tried a couple of times and so far I can't reproduce the hanging anymore. I will keep a close eye to it though.
Comment 3 Justin M. Forbes 2012-02-29 22:16:52 UTC 
Since this appears to be working now, I am going to close this bug. Please feel free to reopen if it starts happening again.
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