On 08/01/08 15:46, Åsmund Grammeltvedt wrote: > On Tuesday 08 January 2008 15:34:09 lurker wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> Often when I build systems with catalyst I encounter the following >> >> kernel freeze after the boot loader has completed: >>> [ ... lots of kernel loading stuff which seems ok ... ] >>> Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed >>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000 >>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000 >>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000 >>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000 >>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000 > > I had an issue with the same symptoms. It turned out that after some builds, > the initramfs would contain empty files instead of links to busybox. > > In my case, the only way I could get it to work consistently was to patch > genkernel to use symbolic links instead, when setting up the initramfs.
Interesting. Care to share any of the details? I'm not as well-versed in catalys as I would like.. -- gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
