[Fedora-ia64-list] rawhide-ia64 status

[Doug Chapman]

Oh, and one other biggie I forgot to put on the list...

anaconda (the Fedora installer) is completely busted right now in
rawhide.  This is typical for this stage of the release so the only way
to install rawhide is to start with F9 and point yum at a rawhide repo
and update to it.

- Doug

On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 15:59 -0400, Doug Chapman wrote:
> Now that F9 for ia64 is out the door focus is on the nightly rawhide
> builds.  I have started doing some testing and have found a couple of
> blocking issues:
> 
> 
> [Bug 454695] New: plymouth sets lib incorrectly on ia64
> 
> Plymouth is the replacement for rhgb.  It is currently broken on ia64.
> When installing a kernel you will see:
> 
>   Installing     : kernel                                            [1/1] 
> /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-populate-initrd: line 87: cd: /usr/lib64: No such
> file or directory
> install: cannot stat `/usr/lib64/plymouth/text.so': No such file or directory
> 
> and the system will not be bootable.
> 
> 
> Workaround: 
> just remove it as mkinitrd only tries to use it if it is there
> 
> # rpm -e plymouth plymouth-libs plymouth-plugin-spinfinity
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [Bug 454663] mkinitrd missing scsi_wait_scan
> 
> This will likely break booting on all systems from scsi disks.  The
> recent kernels now have scsi support compiled in the core kernel instead
> of as a module.  The mkinitrd tool uses the fact that it is loading the
> scsi modules as a trigger to tell if it needs scsi_wait_scan.  Since
> scsi_mod no longer exists it does not know to load scsi_wait_scan and it
> tries to mount the root filesystem before it has been found.
> 
> Workaround: 
> Not trivial but if you extract the initrd and hack it manually you can
> make it boot cleanly:
> 
> # mkdir initrd
> # cd initrd
> # cat /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/initrd-2.6.26-0.115.rc9.git2.fc10.ia64.img | gzip -dc | cpio -i
> 
> then edit init and add these 2 lines just before the line  with "mkblkdevs"
> 
> modprobe scsi_wait_scan
> rmmod scsi_wait_scan
> 
> 
> next you need to add the scsi_wait_scan.ko module and rebuild the deps:
> 
> # cp /lib/modules/2.6.26-0.115.rc9.git2.fc10.ia64/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.ko lib/modules/2.6.26-0.115.rc9.git2.fc10.ia64/
> # depmod -b . 2.6.26-0.115.rc9.git2.fc10.ia64
> 
> then re-pack up the initrd:
> 
> # find . | cpio -o | gzip -9 > /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/initrd-2.6.26-0.115.rc9.git2.fc10.ia64.img
> 
> The system should then boot OK
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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