kernel bug

amc acrossonlnx at comcast.net
Thu Feb 21 13:44:00 EST 2008


I'm not using genkernel but gentoo-sources. I don't use initrd image . 
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Subject: Re: kernel bug


>> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:07:03 -0500
>> From: "Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com>
> 
>> build environment, and so on.  Also, ndiswrapper is a userland
>> program, so if ndiswrapper is involved, something is running in
>> userland.  It might be an initrd (initial RAM disk), which runs things
>> before init starts.  Or maybe it gets invoked by init before services
> 
> Bingo, Ben.  You found it.  TOP is using genkernel kernel+initrd,
> isn't he? :) I doubt wifi is really necessary to mount /, so TOP might
> want to consider disabling/blacklisting ndiswrapper/wifi in his
> initrd.
> 
> There will *still* likely be problems with ndiswrapper (remember,
> ndiswrapper is designed to let you run windoze drivers on you linux
> box, so hm...), but at least there'll be a fully booted, running
> system beneath them. :)
> 
>> start; I have no idea how Gentoo's boot process works.
> 
> It does a topological sort on a depends/provides graph of initscripts,
> caches the sort, and then runs it when booting.
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