[ipxe-devel] console --keep breaks linux-boot

Michael Brown mbrown at fensystems.co.uk
Sat Dec 7 11:30:17 UTC 2013


On 07/12/13 09:59, Oliver Rath wrote:> there is a strange error booting 
ubuntu: If i take the --keep parameter
> into console-command, linux-kerne starts booting, but isnt able to find
> its root-device. If Im disabling --keep, all is running fine. I have no
> idea of the reason for this.

Don't use --keep.  It will retain the downloaded picture file in the 
image list (as reported by "imgstat"), and so it will end up being used 
as an initrd component.  This will confuse the kernel.

Michael



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