Re: Anyone successfully booted a custom kernel on Fedora 17?

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Hi,

On 31 May 2012 20:45, Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/31/2012 05:28 PM, valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 30 May 2012 20:15:35 -0700, Ben Greear said:
>>>
>>> On 05/30/2012 05:16 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This is probably a Fedora 17 issue..but hoping someone will have mercy
>>>> on me :)
>>>
>>>
>>> Must be something to do with my kernel config or how I generate
>>> the initrd with mkinitrd:
>>
>>
>> For what it's worth, over on the Rawhide side of the fence, dracut-018-74
>> builds bad initramfs images for me,while dracut-081-53 works. ÂNot sure
>> what release is in the F17 updates repository. ÂI'm going to file a bug
>> report
>> with Fedora soon as I figure out what -74 is doing wrong.
>
>
> At least my problem appears to be some missing feature in the kernel,
> probably
> one of the 'fooFS' things releated to ramdisk and/or early startup.
> I enabled several things I found in the F17 .config file that were not in my
> config file, and now my kernel boots, at least when I
> build and install it on the F17 machine.
>
> I'm going to try building on F13 and just (re)making the initrd on
> F17 like I have been for all other distributions, but that will be
> a day or two..got a release to shove out the door first!
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
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This thread might help you folks.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/18/230
Urgent: x86-32 and GNU ld 2.22.52.0.1

Happy bug hunting
-p
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