[Server-devel] Booting F9 kernels on XO...

[Martin Langhoff]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> What's the problem?
> My custom initramfs definitely boots on my XO.
> Also the stock F9 one did too, but it landed a lot of errors during
> boot (which took several seconds to enumerate).

I don't doubt it boots in yours, but it doesn't boot with my F9-based
XS image.  Weird.

> And boot without an initramfs?
> When I did this IIRC boot would fail approximately 1 in 5 attempts
> with sdhci errors. Never got a chance to figure out why, but putting
> in the initramfs hid the problem nicely.

rootdelay=5 seems to hide it for me. Except that I forgot to disable
SMP so we oops when trying to mount it. Rebuilding the rpms once
more...



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