[Fedora-livecd-list] bootloader --append="noapic" does nothing?

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Jeremy Katz wrote:

>> Alas, the resulting disc still does not pass "noapic" to the kernel. 
>> What am I supposed to do?
>
> Which version of livecd-tools are you using for building your image?

I'm running the version that yum installed on Fedora 8.

# rpm -q livecd-tools
livecd-tools-013-1.fc8

Is that a good version to be running?  If not, what's the proper way to 
get a fresher version?

> But note if you're doing this for a general-purpose image, you almost 
> certainly don't want to add 'noapic' to the default.  While it may help 
> the specific machine you've tested on, it will cause problems on _more_ 
> machines.

Hmm.  Then what is a reasonable way to build an image that doesn't fail on 
neither that Dell in the corner nor on other people's machines?

It's a pretty catastrophic failure on that machine, and I'd frankly rather 
the system run slowly on some machines and never catastrophically fail 
rather than catastrophically fail on some machines and work perfectly on 
others.

Unrelated issue: the images I generate last night based on Fedora 8 + 
Fedora 8 updates fail to boot, complaining presumably from the initrd:

 	WARNING: Cannot find root file system!

 	Create symlink /dev/root and then exit this shell to continue the boot
 	sequence.

 	bash: no job control in this shell
 	bash-3.2# _

I have disabled our use of the Fedora updates repository to see if that 
fixes this.  (Do you guys know what's causing this?  Is this probably 
related to this thread 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/2008-February/msg00135.html 
?)  I'll report back in a few hours, after the rebuild.....

-- Asheesh.

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