Re: initrd race conditions
Mike Crowe wrote:
>> 1. Failure to boot at all and being dumped at a shell prompt inside
>> the ramdisk if the onboard SATA driver is loaded prior to the
>> megaraid driver. This is despite the fact that nothing is connected
>> to SATA. I've worked around this one by disabling the onboard SATA.
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 02:26:54PM +0000, Steven Haslam wrote:
> I actually had this exact problem myself for the first time this morning
> with my X2 system, with an initrd built by initramfs-tools.
>
> Using yaird may help because AIUI it will only load the modules required
> to mount the root filesystem during the initramfs stage, or at least
> will load those first.
Assuming I can persuade the stock 2.6.15 kernel to use yaird rather
than initramfs then I'll give that a go. If I have to compile the
kernel myself I might as well just compile in the drivers I need which
will also solve the problem for me.
>> 2. Almost random ordering of ethernet devices between boots. The
>> machine has a single e100 and two tg3 ports. Although I can believe
>> that the two tg3s always appear in the same order I've had the e100
>> detected either first, last or inbetween the two tg3s! Statically
>> configuring IP addresses is very hard if you don't know which will be
>> eth0 next time. I've not fathomed a workaround for this one. This
>> makes bug #342498 entered against the installer even worse.
> You can fix the names of network interfaces using udev-- istr that's
> available in sarge, even though a kernel that supports it isn't (fun).
>
> e.g. I have:
>
> bash$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/010_local.rules
[snip]
But surely that's too late? The ramdisk will load the drivers before
my root filesystem and therefore that rules file can be seen.
--
Mike Crowe
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