The kernel is the issue.. I tried a number of things, but finally had to regress back. If you have a tweak I'd LOVE to know what it is.
thanks, jon On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Jeremy Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 10:16 -0800, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > >> Alas, the resulting disc still does not pass "noapic" to the kernel. > > >> What am I supposed to do? > > > > > > Which version of livecd-tools are you using for building your image? > > > > I'm running the version that yum installed on Fedora 8. > [snip] > > Is that a good version to be running? If not, what's the proper way to > > get a fresher version? > > Yes, should be fine. I'm just trying to rule out "we broke it moving > all the code around" as rawhide/current git right now has a lot moved > around :) Looking at the rev, though, it doesn't look like we listen > to --append (although we probably should) > > > > But note if you're doing this for a general-purpose image, you almost > > > certainly don't want to add 'noapic' to the default. While it may > help > > > the specific machine you've tested on, it will cause problems on > _more_ > > > machines. > > > > Hmm. Then what is a reasonable way to build an image that doesn't fail > on > > neither that Dell in the corner nor on other people's machines? > > > > It's a pretty catastrophic failure on that machine, and I'd frankly > rather > > the system run slowly on some machines and never catastrophically fail > > rather than catastrophically fail on some machines and work perfectly on > > others. > > Running with noapic is a catastrophic failure for machines too. The > right thing is to get the kernel bug fixed. Otherwise, you're just > changing out one problem set for another one. And the kernel running in > noapic mode is far far far far far less tested across hardware than the > defaults. > > > Unrelated issue: the images I generate last night based on Fedora 8 + > > Fedora 8 updates fail to boot, complaining presumably from the initrd: > > Has 2.6.24 landed in Fedora 8 updates? I vaguely remember having to make > a tweak for it to work with livecd-tools, but I'm not remembering what that > tweak was anymore > > Jeremy > > -- > Fedora-livecd-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list > -- "Don't stand still, if you see me running down the road, 'cause there is trouble right behind me".
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