Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joseph Fannin wrote:
>>    With this patch, initrds seem to get 'skipped'.  I think this is
>> probably the cause for the reports of problems with RAID too.

On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 07:09:31PM +0000, Daniel Drake wrote:
> This seems likely and is probably also the cause of wli's problems 
> mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
> I had overlooked the way that initrd's work in that part of the boot 
> sequence. Will investigate.

akpm suspected this immediately, and my tests confirmed it.

I should probably do the work to make the box boot with CONFIG_MODULES=n
as I don't like initrd's or modules anyway (new points of failure).


-- wli
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