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[Bug 1564046] Re: New install boot failure

 

I looked in the /boot directory of the installed beta2 version and I
noticed that the file size of

initrd.img-4.4.0-15-powerpc-smp was 37077095 bytes.

I am wondering if there is a maximum file that yaboot can handle for the
ramdisk.

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Title:
  New install boot failure

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Ubuntu-Mate 16.04 Beta2

  PowerMac 11,2 2x2.3GHz 6.5GB
  GeForce 6600 Pcie 256MB

  Live session boots and works mostly normally, there was one crash that
  was automatically reported.  After installation was complete I
  rebooted the machine. The reboot failed with the following messages.

  [    4.690249] RAMDISK: Incomplete write (13225 !=32768)
  [    4.690408] write error
  [    4.690744] Kernal panic - not syncing:  VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
  [    4.690980] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm:  swapper/0 Not tainted 4.4.0-15-powerpc64-smp #31-Ubuntu
  [    4.691205] Call Trace:
  [    4.691282] [c000000201d67a40] [c000000000aca774] .dump_stack+0xa8/0xe8

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