Bug#336993: ppc initramfs woes also present on ia64.
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:21:59PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 12:46 +0000, Paul Brossier wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:01:06AM +0000, Paul Brossier wrote:
> > >
> > > I have been trying to boot this PowerBook7,2 on 2.6.14, but it fails for
> > > me (see #336993), so maybe this got fixed since 2.6.12.
> >
> > right, i can reproduce this on 2.6.14 too.
>
> See
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> http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14485
>
> and
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> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BreezyReleaseNotes
>
> This seems to be a bug in yaboot, I couldn't boot an initramfs kernel
> either until I moved /boot from XFS to ext3.
I see the same bug with 2.6.14-1-mckinley-smp on an ia64. Bootloader
(elilo), kernel and initramfs image are stored on a FAT image for direct
access by the firmware. As far as I understand from the discussion in
the Ubuntu bug report, the kernel does not regard initramfs images as
valid when there is crap appended to the end. Yaboot's XFS
implementation seems to load a bit of junk beyond the end of the image,
which makes the kernel dismiss the initramfs, and elilo on FAT
apparently suffers from the same bug. Is my understanding correct? If
so, #336993 should be reassigned from yaird to yaboot and elilo
(Maintainers Cc'ed).
Regards,
Daniel.
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