[syslinux] Booting new kernels

[Geert Stappers]

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Op 2014-05-18 om 17:35 schreef Gene Cumm:
> On May 18, 2014 3:12 PM, "Alexey Orishko" <alexey.orishko op gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm op gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> > On 05/16/2014 01:35 PM, Tal Lubko wrote:
> >>>> > For some reason when I use kernel 3.7.1 and above the system
> >>>> > crashes during boot and I have no reason why.
> > >>
> > >> Consider a lack of init or otherwise improper initrd (cpio format,
> > >> compression, etc). Consider trying your old kernel with new initrd
> > >> and/or new kernel with old initrd to start diagnosis.
> > >>
> > >
> > > [    0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda1 initrd=rootfs.ext2 console=ttyS0,115200 BOOT_IMAGE=bzImage
> > >
> > > [    0.297992] Unpacking initramfs...
> > > [    0.298619] Initramfs unpacking failed: junk in compressed archive
> > > [    0.299718] Freeing initrd memory: 5636k freed
> >
> > If GPT used instead of MBR, no initrd required...

  :-)


> >
> > Alexey
> 
> GPT versus MBR makes no difference. Storage adapter and its driver location
> is more critical, followed by tools for decryption.
> 
> [    0.710918] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      QEMU HARDDISK 1.4. PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> [    0.712510] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 40960 512-byte logical blocks: (20.9 MB/20.0 MiB)
> 
> [    0.983947] VFS: Mounted root (vfat filesystem) readonly on device 8:1.
> 
> Sounds like the user meant to have init in the initrd and possibly not have
> root on sda1 but the initrd is in an inappropriate format (ie not cpio.gz
> that's typical for initramfs).
> 

More information about initrd at http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.14.4/Documentation/initrd.txt
It says initrd should have a path as value. A path that the bootloader (syslinux)
can find / access.
http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.14.4/Documentation/initrd.txt#L56


And I agree both with Gene and hpa.
Gene is right with "it is our community, it is up to us to improve it"
hpa is right with "it not syslinux issue"


Groeten
Geert Stappers
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