https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569 User rvojcik@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569#c2 Robert Vojcik changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |pczanik@genesi-usa.com --- Comment #2 from Robert Vojcik 2008-04-08 04:41:20 MST --- Hello, please boot another linux and send me these informations: 1. dmesg 2. lspci -vvv or/and lshw 3. lsmod 4. If you have configuration od your kernel (in /boot/ or sometimes in /proc/config.gz) please send it too Thanks ! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569 User pczanik@genesi-usa.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569#c4 peter czanik changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|pczanik@genesi-usa.com | --- Comment #4 from peter czanik 2008-04-09 08:21:57 MST --- Current factory (2008-04-09) still expresses this behavior. Logs for factory attached. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569 Robert Vojcik changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |rvojcik@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569 User larrystotler@netscape.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569#c7 larry stotler changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |larrystotler@netscape.net --- Comment #7 from larry stotler 2008-04-25 11:12:34 MST --- Problem also occurred on PowerBook Wallstreet G3 Series II laptop. Description: Installation starts and proceeds normally. After initial reboot, installation initrd and linux32 files are used(because the Old World Macs can't boot directly and have to use BootX, and there is no provision to copy the new initrd and vmlinux files to the MacOS drive) for 2nd boot. After choosing "start installed system", the system hangs up and then reboots after approx 3 minutes. By pressing Alt-F3 immediately after starting the installed system, I got a screen full of stuff(unfortunately, I can't see the beginning because I can't scroll back). I've included what I see on the screen as an attachment.(note: this is what I got AFTER I managed to finish the install using the following work-around. I have no idea if this will make a difference or not). By pressing Alt-F4 this is displayed: REISERFS (device hda9): found resierfs format "3.6" with standard journal REISERFS (device hda9): using ordered data mode REISERFS (device hda9): journal params: device hda9, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 RESIERFS (device hda9): checking transaction log (hda9) REISERFS (device hda9): Using r5 hash to sort names init has generated signal 4 but has no handler for it Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Rebooting in 180 seconds.. Work-around: By starting the rescue system and mounting / and the MacOS partition, I was able to copy the initrd_2_6_22_17_0.1_default and vmlinux_2_6_22_17_0.1_default files to the MacOS partition and select them with BootX and then the system started fine and finished the installation. Suggestion: Since the installation DVD no longer has the linux32 and initrd files(the have to be extracted from the linux32.gz file), have these files and then the installed initrd and vmlinux files in a tarball available for download. This would help not only in this situation, but it would help out on any installation so that the installed initrd and vmlinux files are available on the MacOS drive at the beginning. The only problem I forsee would be having to also have the current initrd and vmlinux files after any new kernel update available as well. I wish there was a better way to boot on Old World Macs..... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569 Greg Kroah-Hartman changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com |olh@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569 User snwint@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569#c10 Steffen Winterfeldt changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|snwint@novell.com | --- Comment #10 from Steffen Winterfeldt 2008-05-09 09:00:43 MST --- No, I don't think it works. I think the way to go presently is to start the rescue system and use kexec. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569 User olh@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569#c12 Olaf Hering changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|olh@novell.com |snwint@novell.com Severity|Critical |Blocker Platform|PowerPC |All --- Comment #12 from Olaf Hering 2008-05-13 01:01:40 MST --- I really hope that booting into the installed system did not turn into rocket science. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569 Steffen Winterfeldt changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|booting installed system from linuxrc fails |linuxrc: boot installed system option gone -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569 User snwint@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569#c15 --- Comment #15 from Steffen Winterfeldt 2008-05-13 09:04:42 MST --- Just start the rescue system and kexec kernel & initrd. 'start installed system' _never_ really worked. Simply because it is a broken concept and _cannot_ work. The only case where it sometimes works is the scenario described here. That is, when a fresh install does not boot and you have to fix up the bootloader setup. And that is a thing you can as well (resp. better) do from the rescue system (even without kexec). And that is IMO, quite frankly, abusing this feature. I do not see it as linuxrc's main task to cover up for broken ppc bootloader config tools. I know it probably doesn't help you, but: What's that 'repair installed system' option for, anyway? I'm programming linuxrc for several years now and I can't remember a single case where I used that option. It's basically there because this was the way to start the second install phase, but that was really long ago. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569 User snwint@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569#c17 Steffen Winterfeldt changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |olh@novell.com --- Comment #17 from Steffen Winterfeldt 2008-05-14 01:26:19 MST --- That's a question for Olaf. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569 User olh@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569#c19 Olaf Hering changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|olh@novell.com | --- Comment #19 from Olaf Hering 2008-05-14 03:45:30 MST --- kexec is not an option on ppc32, unimplemented. booting into the installed system cant be rocket science, if initrd can do it, linuxrc can do it too. I moved the linux32/initrd32 files from FTP to CD1. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569 User johanh.botha@eskom.co.za added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569#c21 johan botha changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |johanh.botha@eskom.co.za --- Comment #21 from johan botha 2008-07-09 06:49:21 MDT --- I also used it frequently. For example if you recompile a kernel and mess it up. I needed it in OpenSuSE 11 when the detected pae kernel did not work, and I had to install the default kernel. YaST wouldn't run in rescue system. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569 User snwint@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569#c23 Steffen Winterfeldt changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |houghi@houghi.org --- Comment #23 from Steffen Winterfeldt 2008-08-18 10:32:21 MDT --- *** Bug 414149 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=414149 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569 User larrystotler@netscape.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569#c25 --- Comment #25 from larry stotler 2008-08-18 11:43:35 MDT --- Is that in the factory or the Alpha 1? And does that cover x86 or ppc? If you need ppc tested, either myself(might take a few days) or Peter should be able to find out. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.