[Bootcd-user] Boot hangs at Extracting /ram1.cpio.gz
Mark Clarkson
Mark Clarkson <markjclarkson@hotmail.com>
Thu, 1 Jul 2004 02:52:38 +0100
Whilst testing bootcd with a vanilla kernel 2.6.6 (-1-386), I stumbled
accross one reason why bootcd seems to hang after it displays
Extracting /ram1.cpio.gz
If left for a long time (minutes rather than hours) you then see cpio
errors then the cause is probably due to DEVFS=no in bootcdwrite.conf,
when it is actually built into the kernel.
Setting DEVFS=yes will cure this problem, or recompile the kernel
without devfs support entirely. Alternatively, to avoid recompiling the
vanilla kernel, add devfs=nomount to the APPEND string in
bootcdwrite.conf, and ensure that the devfs daemon does not start by
editing /etc/default/devfsd and setting MOUNT=no in that file.
Also check google to see reasons why the automount should always be left
off (I think I saw this in an IBM article).