From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: viro@math.psu.edu
Subject: Re: initrd breakage in 2.5.38-2.5.40
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:52:00 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200210071252.OAA17180@harpo.it.uu.se> (raw)
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 13:00:05 +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>I've been experiencing initrd-related problems since 2.5.38.
>It worked like a charm up to 2.5.37.
>
>The initrd itself works (mine allows users to select root
>partition, no modules involved), but some time later, the
>kernel hangs hard. (No message, NMI watchdog and SysRQ don't
>work.) I can trigger the hangs easily by generating a lot of
>FS activity, e.g. by unpacking a kernel tarball just after boot.
>
>When booting without an initrd image the kernel is rock solid.
Additional information: the problems occurs on every machine
I've tested, and it occurs even if I use a trivial initrd whose
/linuxrc just is "int main(void){return 0;}", so it's not caused
by mounting/pivot_root:ing from the initrd.
/Mikael
next reply other threads:[~2002-10-07 12:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-07 12:52 Mikael Pettersson [this message]
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2002-10-03 11:00 initrd breakage in 2.5.38-2.5.40 Mikael Pettersson
2002-10-03 11:07 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-03 11:52 ` Mikael Pettersson
2002-10-03 14:37 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-03 12:12 ` Russell King
2002-10-03 14:40 ` Alexander Viro
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