Comment 151 for bug 396286
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| Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk) wrote Re: [Geode LX] [OLPC] 2.6.31-generic: kernel panic near the end of initramfs | #151 |
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It seems that we have some progress.
In an attempt to debug this issue, I compared notes with someone on Fedora for whom the same hardware works. As a test, I used their kernel 2.6.31 config (with a couple of small modifications to build specific drivers as built-in) as attached to build my own kernel using make-kpkg. Much to my amazement, this kernel boots fine, as long as I specify root=/dev/sda1 on the GRUB cmdline.
However, for some reason, kernel-package no longer creates an initrd.img, even when the --initrd option was specified to build the kernel-image target. Yet, as soon as I created one using "sudo update-initramfs -k 2.6.31.12-geodelx -c" and rebooted, the kernel failed to boot as before.
Just to be safe, I deleted the initrd and rebooted again, letting udev perform its work after /sbin/init has been launched by the kernel. Lo and behold, it worked again!
As such, it seems that something that gets included in the initramfs image is what messes with the ACL code and destroys some inodes and makes the kernel crash in a non-recoverable way.
Interestingly enough, we still get the previous error messages when booting with this barebone kernel, without an initrd.img, but the error is non-fatal. The output of dmesg -r is attached next.