From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx> redhat/docs: Add FAQ entry for booting between Fedora & ELN/RHEL kernels Add an FAQ entry that provides some simple debugging suggestions for booting between Fedora and ELN/RHEL kernels. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/redhat/docs/faq.rst b/redhat/docs/faq.rst index blahblah..blahblah 100644 --- a/redhat/docs/faq.rst +++ b/redhat/docs/faq.rst @@ -35,8 +35,18 @@ resolve this properly. Please notify us on kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or file an issue at https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/issues. +3. I am booting an ELN/RHEL kernel on Fedora (or vice versa) and the kernel won't boot. What do I do now? -3. How does an MR get reviewed? +This is not uncommon and may be due to a config difference between RHEL and Fedora. One key difference between the two kernels is that Fedora has enabled CONFIG_BTRFS where ELN/RHEL has not, and as a result ELN/RHEL kernels will not mount Fedora BTRFS filesystems. If you are booting the ELN/RHEL kernel config on Fedora you must change these configuration values in the .config: + +.. code-block:: sh + + CONFIG_BTRFS=y + CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_POSIX_ACL=y + +If that change doesn't resolve the boot failure, users should attempt to "flip" configs to determine the difference between the two flavors before reporting bugs. The maintainers acknowledge that this can be a time consuming process but it is left to the user to resolve config differences when cross booting between flavors. + +4. How does an MR get reviewed? ------------------------------- Anything Fedora specific (configs, custom patches, scripts) will be decided -- https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/2239 _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
