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

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> Yes, should be fine.  I'm just trying to rule out "we broke it moving 
> all the code around" as rawhide/current git right now has a lot moved 
> around :)  Looking at the rev, though, it doesn't look like we listen to 
> --append (although we probably should)

Great. (-:

> Running with noapic is a catastrophic failure for machines too.  The 
> right thing is to get the kernel bug fixed.  Otherwise, you're just 
> changing out one problem set for another one.  And the kernel running in 
> noapic mode is far far far far far less tested across hardware than the 
> defaults.

How depressing. (-;

>> Unrelated issue: the images I generate last night based on Fedora 8 + 
>> Fedora 8 updates fail to boot, complaining presumably from the initrd:
>
> Has 2.6.24 landed in Fedora 8 updates?  I vaguely remember having to 
> make a tweak for it to work with livecd-tools, but I'm not remembering 
> what that tweak was anymore

Based on the build logs + the working discs I've generated, kernels as 
late as kernel-2.6.23.15-137.fc8.i686.rpm did work.

FWIW, 
http://buildbot.creativecommons.org:8080/builders/livecontent%20builder/builds/76/steps/compile/logs/stdio 
is the build log for the one that failed, and 
http://buildbot.creativecommons.org:8080/builders/livecontent%20builder/builds/74/steps/compile/logs/stdio 
is the log for the last one that worked.

Curiously, they have the same kernel version.

-- Asheesh.

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