F10 Live CD possible bug

[Nathanael Noblet]

On Oct 2, 2008, at 11:37 AM, Chris Snook wrote:

> Nathanael Noblet wrote:
>> On Oct 1, 2008, at 4:08 PM, Chris Snook wrote:
>>> Nathanael Noblet wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I downloaded the live cd of F10 beta. Booted and added the  
>>>> live_ram option to the boot params. After copying the image to  
>>>> RAM I get the following error on two machines, (Apple Mac Book,  
>>>> and Acer 3680).
>>>> Done copying live image to RAM.
>>>> eject: did not find a device /dev/root in /sys/block
>>>> Bug in initramfs /init detected. Dropping to a shell. Good luck!
>>>> sbin/real-init: line 7: plymouth: command not found
>>>> I know I used that param for F9. Is it depreciated or is this a  
>>>> bug needing filling?
>>>
>>> Assuming it does something different when you omit the option,  
>>> that's a bug.  If we don't intend for it to work in F10, the  
>>> option should be removed entirely, and ignored if passed by the  
>>> user.
>>>
>> Yeah if you remove the live_ram from the boot options. It boots...
>> Is there a rationale for removing the option? It came in super  
>> useful for me a month or so back. I can't remember the exact issue  
>> but saved the day for me when I finally found it.
>
> If it had been removed, it wouldn't do anything.  The fact that it's  
> doing something indicates that it's expected to still work, but  
> broken.  Please file a BZ.

Against? mkinitrd? this is in the init in the initrd but I'm not sure  
if it is for installed systems or not...