Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8677] New: booting with initrd fails: request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000

From: S.ÃaÄlar Onur
Date: Tue Jun 26 2007 - 07:13:26 EST


26 Haz 2007 Sal tarihinde, Andrew Morton ÅunlarÄ yazmÄÅtÄ:
> > I can't boot all 2.6.22_rc* kernels with an initrd. When booting I get
> > the following message about 6 times:
> >
> > request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000
> >
> > If I disable the initrd, booting works without problems.
>
> I seem to recall having seen reports of this before. Does anyone recall
> the reason for it?

I've hit that before, first was the misc. compiliation issue which solved by
recompilation and other was related to "Load Custom Dsdt Table" [1] patch
which seems the case here (boots without initramfs/initrd) if that kernel has
that kind of out-of-tree patch.

[1] http://gaugusch.at/kernel.shtml

Cheers
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