Booting the installation images

[Karsten Hopp]

Hello,

It took me a while, but I've finally figured out the pungi problems 
where almost no
libraries got copied into the installation initrd. I'll prepare a patch 
and will send it to David

So far I run into several problems with those images:

- all parameters given in the parm file are ignored and I had to enter 
the whole network
  configuration again
- insmod doesn't load any modules,  which means that the linuxrc can't 
load required modules.
  I currently have to drop to a shell and load  them manually with modprobe
- dbus-daemon doesn't start automatically, but the loader relies on it
- the loader doesn't get started automatically and hangs at the first 
screen when started manually.
- wpa_supplicant gets started ?!

   Karsten

[David Cantrell]

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On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Karsten Hopp wrote:

>  Hello,
>
>  It took me a while, but I've finally figured out the pungi problems where 
>  almost no
>  libraries got copied into the installation initrd. I'll prepare a patch and 
>  will send it to David
>
>  So far I run into several problems with those images:
>
>  - all parameters given in the parm file are ignored and I had to enter the 
>  whole network
>  configuration again 
That's strange, but that would all be in linuxrc.s390 I would think.

>  - insmod doesn't load any modules,  which means that the linuxrc
> can't load 
>  required modules.
>  I currently have to drop to a shell and load  them manually with modprobe 
Are we copying in the correct insmod and not the busybox one?

>  - dbus-daemon doesn't start automatically, but the loader relies
> on it 
This is launched by init.c on all platforms except s390.  Since we have
linuxrc.s390 on s390, we'll need to modify it to start dbus-daemon for us.

>  - the loader doesn't get started automatically and hangs at the
> first screen 
>  when started manually. 
linuxrc.s390 is responsible for this.

>  - wpa_supplicant gets started ?! 
Because of NetworkManager, which is started by loader.  So that tells me
loader is starting, but failing to get going.

- -- 
David Cantrell <dcantrell(a)redhat.com&gt;
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI

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