On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 17:16 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote: > Peter, > > I run into a random boot failure issue with my t61 mobile. It's > a dual-core x86-64 mobile. I installed Fedora core x86-64 8. > with kernel 2.6.28-rc, system fails to boot randomly. > > Pls. see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11899. > > I found there are 2 issues. > 1) when root=LABEL=/1, almost fails. nash fails to find the DISK type > for root device (MAJOR 259), so it couldn't probe for the boot file > system labels; It might be resolved by calling register_blkdev in kernel for 259. > 2) when root=/dev/sda1, random fails. I instrumented both kernel and nash. kernel really > sends out netlink uevent info for device /dev/sdaXXX, but nash doesn't receive it. > > I did a quick check of the source codes of the latest nash of FC10. It seems FC10's nash > just added some new features (subcommands). So it shouldn't fix it. I didn't really test > the latest nash because the nash update depends on too many rpms. Peter, I think I found the root cause of issue 2). Pls. see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11899#c38. Could you help review the patch? -yanmin -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
