kernel 3.5.0 and initrd

Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz arekm at maven.pl
Thu Aug 2 18:49:53 CEST 2012


On Wednesday 01 of August 2012, Artur Wroblewski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When starting system using kernel 3.5.0, then I am getting something around
> 
>     BusyBox v1.19.3 (2012-01-13 00:33:55 CET) multi-call binary.
> 
>     Usage: mknod [-m MODE] NAME TYPE MAJOR MINOR
> 
> Before that info that /dev/sda1 is missing and after some nice kernel oops.
> 
> Sorry for such lame bug report, but maybe someone else has something
> similar?

Looks like kernel 3.5.0 is doing something async way again and our geninitrd 
simply doesn't wait for devices to be activated.

geninitrd in svn should now always use minimal mdev from busybox when full 
udev is not enabled.

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / maven.pl


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