On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 07:11:10AM -0800, John Reiser wrote: > On 11/23/2015 03:08 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote: > >Trying to write down some of the things I know so that I don't forget > >and so that maybe someone else can figure this out. > > > >I've been testing with a PXE setup using rawhide boot.iso's that I've > >created. I'm injecting the modified code into the initrd by adding > >,/path/to/extra.img to the initrd PXE entry. This also works for adding > >the kickstart at / > > > >If parse-kickstart is run before the kernel initializes the nonblocking > >random pool it appears to starve the system and it takes anywhere from > >several minutes to forever for the pool to be initialized and for the > >boot to continue. > > [[snip]] > > How many execve()? Each consumes 16 bytes from the pool for AT_RANDOM. > A shell script that invokes helper utility programs instead of builtin > string operations is one likely culprit. Unknown, but mbly way oore than 1 since it is dracut running at this point. -- Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT) _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
