#1638: LiveCD fails, Hanging at "Starting init..."
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Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone: 6.2
Component: CD | Version: x86-6.1.1-3
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: init unionfs |
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Comment (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Please verify that the statements below correctly identify the state of
the problem.
1. 6.1.1-X (X>=2) fails to boot on some old computers
2. 6.1.1-1 (which, by mistake, contains a 2.6.12.x kernel) also fails to
boot
3. 6.2-preX seems to fix (or hide) the problem for people with unbootable
6.1.1-X CDs
4. disabling /sbin/hotplug seems to help
5. replacing unionfs with a bind mount while keeping everything as on the
original CD doesn't get past "Starting init..."
6. switching to dm (which, basically, contanis the same init but no
unionfs) doesn't help
7. the problem is reproducible even with a shell-based init, see
http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-
archives/livecd/2006-March/003179.html. Need to verify, since Brandon made
too many typos during this simple task, and this result is, therefore, not
trusted.
8. There is a different kind of hang with LiteOn drive here, solved by
disabling DMA and waiting 5 minutes for the kernel to recognize the broken
CD-ROM drive.
Points 5 and 6 rule out unionfs as the cause of this bug. Point 7 seems to
rule out the binary init. Point 4 seems to suggest some kind of OOM
situation or filesystem/block layer stress.
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