On 2/14/07, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
James Olin Oden (james.oden@xxxxxxxxx) said: > One the developers where I work has attempted to patch loader.c with a > slight sleep (5 seconds) to occur before scanning for devices but now > he is getting a segv. The original problem was that when we booted > from a USB device, anaconda would load, but then be unable to find the > device from which it was booted. This appeared to be a race condition > where the udev files are not being created before anaconda searches > the bootable device list. This is one of the problems addressed by the > patch sent by Uday Prakash to this list on Jan 25. He grabbed the > relevant portion of that patch and just added the logMessage and 5 > second delay to loader.c. The build completed successfully, and then > I copied the newly built loader executable into the initrd at > /sbin/loader. Make sure your kudzu and new loader were both built against the same pciutils - that can cause crashes if the ABI changes.
I'm missing something Bill. Since loader is statically linked how can there be ABI differences? Thanks...james
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