Re: Make sure we populate the initroot filesystem late enough

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Mon Feb 26 2007 - 15:57:34 EST


On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 10:44 -0600, Milton Miller wrote:
> Any chance you are using one of the unusal code paths, like the
> bootloader moving the initrd or using a kernel crash region?

I'm doing nothing special. And I'm less sure now about the trigger. I
built a Fedora 7 test 2 install tree with the patch reverted, and
managed to boot and install.... but now when I boot the _same_ machine
with the same CD, it fails.

Now I'm starting to wonder if it's something the firmware sets up to DMA
to a certain region of memory, which makes it non-deterministic. And the
other things we're blaming are only making a difference because they
change the layout of what we have in memory.

--
dwmw2

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