On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Daniel J Blueman
>> <daniel.blueman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 22 July 2010 02:06, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Daniel J Blueman
>>>> <daniel.blueman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Luis,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 21 July 2010 01:36, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> I have been reluctant to boot to 2.6.35-rc due to the large set of
>>>>>> regression list and the amount of work I needed to actually get done
>>>>>> on 2.6.35. Last I checked the regression list it was getting small so
>>>>>> I gave it a spin today. No luck. I get some bootup error from udevd
>>>>>> and ext2/ext3/ext4, something like this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> EXT3-fs (sda1): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional
>>>>>> features (240)
>>>>>> EXT2-fs (sda1): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional
>>>>>> features (240)
>>>>>> EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
>>>>>
>>>>> This succeeded.
>>>>
>>>> Heh, OK :)
>>>>
>>>>>> VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1
>>>>>> Freeing unused kernel memory: 708k freed
>>>>>> Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 102040k
>>>>>> Freeing unused kernel memory: 764k freed
>>>>>> Freeing unused kernel memory: 1796k freed
>>>>>> udevd: failed to create queue file: No such file or directory
>>>>>> udevd: error creating queue file
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks like you need to enable:
>>>>>
>>>>> CONFIG_DEVTMPFS
>>>>> CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, it also turned out that when I upgraded from Ubuntu 9.10 to
>>>> Ubuntu 10.04 it replaced my own /sbin/installkernel so this was likely
>>>> another issue. My /sbin/installkernel changes allow for easy initramfs
>>>> installation on Debian/Ubuntu but my patches have been ignored my the
>>>> maintainer.
>>>>
>>>> --- installkernel-ubuntu-10.04 2010-07-21 18:03:34.607678010 -0700
>>>> +++ installkernel 2010-01-29 13:17:10.000000000 -0800
>>>> @@ -36,7 +36,8 @@
>>>> # Create backups of older versions before installing
>>>> updatever () {
>>>> if [ -f "$dir/$1-$ver" ] ; then
>>>> - mv "$dir/$1-$ver" "$dir/$1-$ver.old"
>>>> + #mv "$dir/$1-$ver" "$dir/$1-$ver.old"
>>>> + rm -f "$dir/$1-$ver" "$dir/$1-$ver.old"
>>>> fi
>>>>
>>>> cat "$2" > "$dir/$1-$ver"
>>>> @@ -75,5 +76,16 @@
>>>> if [ -f "$config" ] ; then
>>>> updatever config "$config"
>>>> fi
>>>> +
>>>> +LSB_RED_ID=$(/usr/bin/lsb_release -i -s)
>>>> +
>>>> +case $LSB_RED_ID in
>>>> +"Ubuntu")
>>>> + update-initramfs -c -k $ver
>>>> + update-grub
>>>> + ;;
>>>> +*)
>>>> + ;;
>>>> +esac
>>>>
>>>> exit 0
>>>>
>>>> But anyway I also now get another boot failure with:
>>>>
>>>> mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory
>>>> mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> Hmm...the scripts in the initrd are not doing what is expected -
>>> perhaps if you didn't use:
>>> linux$ fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version -luis1 --initrd kernel-image
>>
>> I am not using that to build my kernels I just build my kernels with
>>
>> make
>> sudo make modules_install install
>>
>>> ...or if there are eg initrd script modifications on the filesystem
>>> when it cooked the initd.
>>
>> I haven't modified any initrd scripts.
>>
>>> You could just try eg:
>>> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux/linux-image-2.6.35-9-generic_2.6.35-9.14_amd64.deb
>
> Fun, so that kernel actually works but the one I am building from
> wireless-testing.git does not. The curious thing is it doesn't boot
> even if I remove my 802.11 module... so something is fishy. This is
> likely a config issue. After booting with the above kernel though I
> generated a new one with
>
> make localmodconfig
>
> and then enabled my 802.11 modules. Still, no luck.. Going to reset my
> tree, I had manually merged Linus' latest stuff in but I don't think
> this should matter.
That didn't work, but it seems this was just my config, the same
config worked on older kernels but I am not motivated enough to figure
out what I actually did enable which fixed this. But just for the
record
config which did not work:
http://bombadil.infradead.org/~mcgrof/configs/2010/config-issue/config-old.txt
config which worked:
http://bombadil.infradead.org/~mcgrof/configs/2010/config-issue/config.txt
The diff:
http://bombadil.infradead.org/~mcgrof/configs/2010/config-issue/diff-34-35.patch
Luis
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