Re: initrd and fc3

[rich turner]

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 11:43, Matan Peled wrote:
> rich turner wrote:
> 
> >i am testing fc3 by using an old-school initrd. by old-school i mean not
> >the new initramfs/cpio type initrd. the process i use to create the
> >initrd works for all other distributions (suse, mandrake, debian, fc2,
> >2.2.x, 2.4.x, 2.6.x, etc) but fails with fc3 (2.6.9-1.667).
> >
> >upon system boot, the kernel executes, checks to see if the initrd is
> >initramfs (it isnt), finds the initrd (ext2), mounts it, and then
> >immediately exits without executing linuxrc.
> >
> >anyone have any ideas as to why linuxrc is not being executed?
> >
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> You pretty much deduced the bug is in FC3, and not the general kernel...
> 
> So why exactly is this on topic on LKML?
i agree that this isnt the proper place for this topic if it is only
related to fc3.
> 
> 
> Is the bug reproducible on a vanilla kernel.org kernel?
i am doing this now. if this is reproducable in vanilla 2.6.9 then i
will let the list know.
> 
> - Mif
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