[Comm-en] p10-lxde-20230910-x86_64 kernel panic: sync error

[Michael Shigorin]

On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 10:35:16AM -0600, TheGrove wrote:
> > Today I downloaded alt-p10-lxde-20230910-x86_64.iso from
> > the repository, used dd to put it onto a USB stick and tried
> > booting it on both my ASUS eeeBox and my Acer Aspire One
> > netbook. However, when I tried to run either Live or Install
> > of the 20230910 build, I get this error:
> > https://www.thegrove.in.nf/fileshare/p10-boot.JPG
> Update: Today I even tried using the ALT Media Writer
> application to create the USB, just in case my use of dd
> was flawed in some way.  But, I got the same results.

The problem is within the image's initrd, obviously;
we've discussed it with the colleague busy with starterkits
these days and I've asked another guy with EeePC to give it
a run when the test i586.iso is ready; we'll come back
soonish, hopefully (or feel free to ping this week).

The culprit seems to be the ever-growing number and size
of kernel drivers and firmare files available that bloats
basically everything including initrd; I've proposed dropping
server-related ones from desktop livecd images (one is rather
not running his ALT LiveCD on a Mellanox SN2100 100GE switch,
and when he does, he tends to know what to put there :-).

-- 
Michael Shigorin
http://altlinux.org/elbrus