Re: 7.0.3-beta2 won't boot
Jean-Roch Blais <[email protected]>
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Hello everyone ... > On May 28, 2021, at 09:22, Erich Titl <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Tim > > Am 27.05.2021 um 20:40 schrieb Timothy Wegner: >> On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 1:15 PM Erich Titl <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I have been able to reproduce the problem on my APU now. It appears to >>> happen only when booting from a USB connected medium. I guess we have to >>> look into the first invocation of mdev which should enable usb connected >>> media unless those modules are not compiled into this kernel. >>> >> Hooray! I am super happy you can duplicate the problem, since my only >> reason for >> being on the bleeding edge of all the alphas and betas is to help out the >> project in some small way. >> I would be really annoyed if my problem was just due to something I did >> wrong! >> Meanwhile I am happily running beta1 on my home network. The last few dmesg >> files I sent you were generated on an old PC I built years ago. >> Nice to investigate the beta2 problems without disrupting my network, >> especially my significant other! >> I am not surprised that the problem is USB-only, sinc as I reported I >> successfully booted the beta2 x86 64 ISO on the same PC that fails with USB. > > Indeed, the problem is caused by the fact that _real_ block devices are recognized by the kernel at boot whereas the USB connected block devices needed a nudge to somehow awake the creation of device nodes. The drivers themselves were compiled in but still they somehow were just asleep. As most people, like myself, boot from other media than USB this slipped through. Erich this USB drivers sleeping spell sounds a bit Voodoo like !!!, I know you like to hang close to the Antilles and the rhum, that might explain your choice of words ..., but my curiosity and thirst for knowledge is pique… :-)… Considering beta1 works fine, could you elaborate what changed in beta2’s initdr that prompted you to send a new one to Tim ? Unless you don’t want to share your black magic !!! Just having fun… bye jrb. > > I will send you another initrd in a separate mail. > > cheers > > ET > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/