Re: initrd and fc3

[Matan Peled]

rich turner wrote:

> i am testing fc3 by using an old-school initrd. by old-school i mean not
> the new initramfs/cpio type initrd. the process i use to create the
> initrd works for all other distributions (suse, mandrake, debian, fc2,
> 2.2.x, 2.4.x, 2.6.x, etc) but fails with fc3 (2.6.9-1.667).
>
> upon system boot, the kernel executes, checks to see if the initrd is
> initramfs (it isnt), finds the initrd (ext2), mounts it, and then
> immediately exits without executing linuxrc.
>
> anyone have any ideas as to why linuxrc is not being executed?
>
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You pretty much deduced the bug is in FC3, and not the general kernel...

So why exactly is this on topic on LKML?


Is the bug reproducible on a vanilla kernel.org kernel?

- Mif

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