I'm hitting a problem that initramfs is corrupted when booting from GRUB2 on VMware Player 6.0.6. This problem does not occur when booting from qemu-kvm or from PXE on VMware Player 6.0.6.
[ 0.000000] Linux version 4.5.0-rc1+ (root@ccsecurity) (gcc version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4) (GCC) ) #381 Sat Mar 5 17:34:11 JST 2016 [ 0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0 panic=3 [ 0.000000] Disabled fast string operations [ 0.000000] x86/fpu: xstate_offset[2]: 576, xstate_sizes[2]: 256 [ 0.000000] x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x01: 'x87 floating point registers' [ 0.000000] x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x02: 'SSE registers' [ 0.000000] x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x04: 'AVX registers' [ 0.000000] x86/fpu: Enabled xstate features 0x7, context size is 832 bytes, using 'standard' format. [ 0.000000] x86/fpu: Using 'eager' FPU context switches. [ 0.000000] e820: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009ebff] usable [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009ec00-0x000000000009ffff] reserved [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000dc000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x000000007fedffff] usable [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000007fee0000-0x000000007fefefff] ACPI data [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000007feff000-0x000000007fefffff] ACPI NVS [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000007ff00000-0x000000007fffffff] usable [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000f0000000-0x00000000f7ffffff] reserved [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fec00000-0x00000000fec0ffff] reserved [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fee00000-0x00000000fee00fff] reserved [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fffe0000-0x00000000ffffffff] reserved [ 0.000000] NX (Execute Disable) protection: active [ 0.000000] e820: last_pfn = 0x80000 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000 [ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [mem 0x000f6bf0-0x000f6bff] mapped at [ffff8800000f6bf0] [ 0.000000] Using GB pages for direct mapping [ 0.000000] RAMDISK: [mem 0x37f47000-0x37f9bfff] [ 0.000000] Zone ranges: [ 0.000000] DMA32 [mem 0x0000000000001000-0x000000007fffffff] [ 0.000000] Normal empty [ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node [ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000000001000-0x000000000009dfff] [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x000000007fedffff] [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x000000007ff00000-0x000000007fffffff] [ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000001000-0x000000007fffffff] [ 0.000000] Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4 [ 0.000000] MPTABLE: OEM ID: INTEL [ 0.000000] MPTABLE: Product ID: 440BX [ 0.000000] MPTABLE: APIC at: 0xFEE00000 [ 0.000000] Processor #0 (Bootup-CPU) [ 0.000000] Processor #2 [ 0.000000] ACPI: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 1 reached. Processor 1/0x2 ignored. [ 0.000000] Processor #4 [ 0.000000] ACPI: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 1 reached. Processor 2/0x4 ignored. [ 0.000000] Processor #6 [ 0.000000] ACPI: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 1 reached. Processor 3/0x6 ignored. [ 0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 [ 0.000000] Processors: 1 [ 0.000000] e820: [mem 0x80000000-0xefffffff] available for PCI devices [ 0.000000] clocksource: refined-jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 1910969940391419 ns [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 516968 [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0 panic=3 [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) [ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) [ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) [ 0.000000] Memory: 2058288K/2096628K available (1158K kernel code, 219K rwdata, 412K rodata, 436K init, 1280K bss, 38340K reserved, 0K cma-reserved) [ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:4352 nr_irqs:48 16 [ 0.000000] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 [ 0.000000] console [tty0] enabled [ 0.000000] console [ttyS0] enabled [ 0.000000] tsc: Fast TSC calibration using PIT [ 0.000000] tsc: Detected 2793.150 MHz processor [ 0.000004] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 5586.30 BogoMIPS (lpj=2793150) [ 0.000020] pid_max: default: 4096 minimum: 301 [ 0.000036] Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) [ 0.000994] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) [ 0.001010] Disabled fast string operations [ 0.001025] ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: Set to 'normal', was 'performance' [ 0.001041] ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: View and update with x86_energy_perf_policy(8) [ 0.002014] Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 1024, 2MB 1024, 4MB 1024 [ 0.002030] Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 1024, 2MB 1024, 4MB 1024, 1GB 4 [ 0.002046] CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4440S CPU @ 2.80GHz (family: 0x6, model: 0x3c, stepping: 0x3) [ 0.002108] Performance Events: 16-deep LBR, Haswell events, core PMU driver. [ 0.003001] perf_event_intel: CPUID marked event: 'cpu cycles' unavailable [ 0.003017] perf_event_intel: CPUID marked event: 'instructions' unavailable [ 0.003032] perf_event_intel: CPUID marked event: 'bus cycles' unavailable [ 0.003986] perf_event_intel: CPUID marked event: 'cache references' unavailable [ 0.004002] perf_event_intel: CPUID marked event: 'cache misses' unavailable [ 0.004018] perf_event_intel: CPUID marked event: 'branch instructions' unavailable [ 0.004033] perf_event_intel: CPUID marked event: 'branch misses' unavailable [ 0.005001] ... version: 1 [ 0.005016] ... bit width: 48 [ 0.005032] ... generic registers: 8 [ 0.005047] ... value mask: 0000ffffffffffff [ 0.005063] ... max period: 000000007fffffff [ 0.005993] ... fixed-purpose events: 0 [ 0.006008] ... event mask: 00000000000000ff [ 0.006201] ExtINT not setup in hardware but reported by MP table [ 0.007179] ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=0 pin2=0 [ 0.221031] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 1911260446275000 ns [ 0.222093] perf_event_intel: PMU erratum BJ122, BV98, HSD29 workaround disabled, HT off [ 0.223072] clocksource: Switched to clocksource refined-jiffies [ 0.224061] Unpacking initramfs... [ 0.227045] Initramfs unpacking failed: junk in compressed archive [ 0.228047] Freeing initrd memory: 340K (ffff880037f47000 - ffff880037f9c000) Bisection reached to "x86/setup: Calculate ramdisk parameters only once". # bad: [1c4a6915f1661477c76e187a2e4e155469232bd7] Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/auto-latest' # good: [59945951501df7b5e853bcd9e407ac3fe08e7b54] Merge remote-tracking branch 'spi/for-next' # good: [afd2ff9b7e1b367172f18ba7f693dfb62bdcb2dc] Linux 4.4 # good: [6a13feb9c82803e2b815eca72fa7a9f5561d7861] Linux 4.3 # good: [64291f7db5bd8150a74ad2036f1037e6a0428df2] Linux 4.2 # good: [b953c0d234bc72e8489d3bf51a276c5c4ec85345] Linux 4.1 # good: [39a8804455fb23f09157341d3ba7db6d7ae6ee76] Linux 4.0 git bisect start 'next-20160302~39' 'next-20160302~40' 'v4.4' 'v4.3' 'v4.2' 'v4.1' 'v4.0' # good: [675965b00d734c985e4285f5bec7e524d15fc4e1] perf: Export perf_event_sysfs_show() git bisect good 675965b00d734c985e4285f5bec7e524d15fc4e1 # good: [993341215b639b301465872d07df19094b7c7642] Merge branch 'irq/core' git bisect good 993341215b639b301465872d07df19094b7c7642 # good: [f636335db00f51f226c0e0fd95708cd7a2f6dd03] Merge branch 'perf/core' git bisect good f636335db00f51f226c0e0fd95708cd7a2f6dd03 # good: [27e080368abb78715ac7d8b2efb5500e60ed17f8] Merge branch 'x86/asm' git bisect good 27e080368abb78715ac7d8b2efb5500e60ed17f8 # good: [9cc6f743c7724eb9abaf27904194c169db85dd31] x86/microcode: Use kmemdup() rather than duplicating its implementation git bisect good 9cc6f743c7724eb9abaf27904194c169db85dd31 # bad: [deae8431f83cf559349128f7cc7fc3268a16fc3b] Merge branch 'x86/microcode' git bisect bad deae8431f83cf559349128f7cc7fc3268a16fc3b # good: [a91bbe017552b80e12d712c85549b933a62c6ed4] x86/boot: Use proper array element type in memset() size calculation git bisect good a91bbe017552b80e12d712c85549b933a62c6ed4 # bad: [2f0d67abbbeb220a1b87a358cad5927dc54ae572] Merge branch 'x86/boot' git bisect bad 2f0d67abbbeb220a1b87a358cad5927dc54ae572 # bad: [6fc77525f509e16b1e909e5ffd6f9ad9dccc0f82] x86/setup: Calculate ramdisk parameters only once git bisect bad 6fc77525f509e16b1e909e5ffd6f9ad9dccc0f82 # good: [25b4caf7c50e8c501310e8c515d8518b1850c948] x86/boot: Remove unused 'is_big_kernel' variable git bisect good 25b4caf7c50e8c501310e8c515d8518b1850c948 # first bad commit: [6fc77525f509e16b1e909e5ffd6f9ad9dccc0f82] x86/setup: Calculate ramdisk parameters only once Tetsuo Handa wrote: > Hello. Did someone hit this problem? > > I haven't tried bisecting this. I think this is kconfig dependent. > > ---------- until next-20160301 ---------- > [ 0.000000] RAMDISK: [mem 0x35f1f000-0x36f87fff] > (...snipped...) > [ 1.522324] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs... > [ 1.927986] Freeing initrd memory: 16804K (ffff880035f1f000 - > ffff880036f88000) > > ---------- next-20160302 and next-20160303 ---------- > [ 0.000000] RAMDISK: [mem 0x35f1e000-0x36f86fff] > (...snipped...) > [ 1.593637] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs... > [ 2.035467] rootfs image is not initramfs (no cpio magic); looks like an > initrd > (...snipped...) > [ 3.088051] RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. > [ 3.090892] VFS: Cannot open root device > "UUID=98df1583-260a-423a-a193-182dade5d085" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6 > [ 3.095528] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the > available partitions: > [ 3.099450] 0100 4096 ram0 (driver?) > [ 3.101688] 0101 4096 ram1 (driver?) > [ 3.104022] 0102 4096 ram2 (driver?) > [ 3.106247] 0103 4096 ram3 (driver?) > [ 3.108664] 0104 4096 ram4 (driver?) > [ 3.110379] 0105 4096 ram5 (driver?) > [ 3.112064] 0106 4096 ram6 (driver?) > [ 3.113724] 0107 4096 ram7 (driver?) > [ 3.115344] 0108 4096 ram8 (driver?) > [ 3.117167] 0109 4096 ram9 (driver?) > [ 3.118967] 010a 4096 ram10 (driver?) > [ 3.120722] 010b 4096 ram11 (driver?) > [ 3.122380] 010c 4096 ram12 (driver?) > [ 3.124048] 010d 4096 ram13 (driver?) > [ 3.125702] 010e 4096 ram14 (driver?) > [ 3.127381] 010f 4096 ram15 (driver?) > [ 3.129068] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(0,0) > [ 3.132197] Kernel Offset: disabled > [ 3.134607] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root > fs on unknown-block(0,0) >
