On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Any hints as to what to try next, doco or source to read? After a bit more investigation. the livecd-tools package in F9 (017.1-1.fc9) can only build F9 correctly, and the problem boils down to incorrect placement of the .ko files in the initrd. Here is how to repro with F9 vs F7. In my testing, F8 shows the same problems. 1 - Take the fedora-minimal.ks file and replace "rawhide" with 'fedora-9', 'fedora-7' - as follows: --8<----8<----8<-- lang en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us timezone US/Eastern auth --useshadow --enablemd5 selinux --disabled firewall --disabled part / --size 1024 repo --name=released --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-9&arch=$basearch %packages @core bash kernel passwd policycoreutils chkconfig authconfig rootfiles %end --8<----8<----8<-- 2 - Build one minimal Liveimage for each. The image should boot to a login prompt - though it will not allow logins as no root pw has been set. 3 - Boot the images with qemu -m 512 --cdrom <path-to-iso> -- the F7 iso will panic 4 - mount -o loop both ISOs, in my case in /tmp/f7 /tmp/f9 and extract the initrd in each 5 - find initrd-7 initrd-9 -type f -name '*.ko' initrd-7/lib/mbcache.ko initrd-7/lib/sr_mod.ko initrd-7/lib/msdos.ko initrd-7/lib/ext3.ko initrd-7/lib/ehci-hcd.ko initrd-7/lib/uhci-hcd.ko initrd-7/lib/pata_pcmcia.ko initrd-7/lib/mmc_block.ko initrd-7/lib/jbd.ko (...snipped...) initrd-9/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.i686/pata_jmicron.ko initrd-9/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.i686/ata_generic.ko initrd-9/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.i686/pata_qdi.ko initrd-9/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.i686/sata_vsc.ko initrd-9/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.i686/sata_sil24.ko initrd-9/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.i686/pata_hpt366.ko Additionally, I have a F7 liveCD built elsewhere (with an earlier, patched version of livecd-tools) that boots successfully - the initrd of that liveCD looks like find initrd-7-good -type f -name '*.ko' | head initrd-7-good/lib/modules/2.6.23.1-21.fc7/pata_jmicron.ko initrd-7-good/lib/modules/2.6.23.1-21.fc7/ata_generic.ko initrd-7-good/lib/modules/2.6.23.1-21.fc7/pata_qdi.ko initrd-7-good/lib/modules/2.6.23.1-21.fc7/sata_vsc.ko initrd-7-good/lib/modules/2.6.23.1-21.fc7/sata_sil24.ko initrd-7-good/lib/modules/2.6.23.1-21.fc7/pata_hpt366.ko initrd-7-good/lib/modules/2.6.23.1-21.fc7/mbcache.ko initrd-7-good/lib/modules/2.6.23.1-21.fc7/sata_sx4.ko initrd-7-good/lib/modules/2.6.23.1-21.fc7/pata_serverworks.ko initrd-7-good/lib/modules/2.6.23.1-21.fc7/sr_mod.ko I am not sure why this is happening, but I keep working on this. regards, martin -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx martin@xxxxxxxxxx -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
