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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481354


           Summary: Factory doesn't boot in VirtualBox anymore
    Classification: openSUSE
           Product: openSUSE 11.2
           Version: Factory
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Blocker
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: Kernel
        AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: poeml@xxxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: qa@xxxxxxx
          Found By: ---


Every Factory image upgraded yesterday or the day before ceased to work
for me, and the current images out there fail in the same way. They all
stop with a black screen at the time where the kernel should be
loading (or starting to be loaded maybe). VirtualBox aborts and says
"aborted". 

It doesn't seem to be a quirk in VirtualBox, and not a bug in the
handling of the snapshots I had accumulated (which was my first
suspicion). It didn't change anything to start with a fresh harddisk
without snapshots.
Other images I have around (FreeBSD, Ubuntu, ArchLinux, 11.1) work.

I played with VirtualBox config options, to no avail. Reinstalling the
bootloader didn't help.

I booted a rescue system, recreated the initial ramdisk, and noticed
that mkinitrd includes about 87 modules into the initial ramdisk, which
seems weird. (It gives an initrd 13 megs in size, uncompressed). I
wondered why the initrd is just a simple gzipped cpio archive, I had
expected something fancier, but maybe this is the way things are done
today.

I later was able to boot the system with an 11.1 kernel, with an initrd
created with 11.1 mkinitrd.

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