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On Tuesday 08 January 2008 15:34:09 lurker wrote: |
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> Greetings, |
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> Often when I build systems with catalyst I encounter the following |
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> kernel freeze after the boot loader has completed: |
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> > [ ... lots of kernel loading stuff which seems ok ... ] |
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> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed |
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> > request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000 |
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> > request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000 |
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> > request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000 |
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> > request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000 |
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> > request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000 |
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I had an issue with the same symptoms. It turned out that after some builds, |
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the initramfs would contain empty files instead of links to busybox. |
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In my case, the only way I could get it to work consistently was to patch |
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genkernel to use symbolic links instead, when setting up the initramfs. |
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Åsmund Grammeltvedt |
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