Hi Vagrant,
Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org> skribis:
> After upgrading to linux-libre 4.20, and again tested with 4.20.3, an
> aarch64 system failed to boot (using 4.19.10 worked fine):
>
> [ 3.692351] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.39.0-ioctl (2018-04-03) initialised:
> dm-de...@redhat.com
> ext2fs_check_if_mount: Can't check if filesystem is mounted due to missing
> mtab file while determining whether /dev/sda6 is mounted.
> /dev/sda6: clean, 596262/6553600 files, 7663147/26214400 blocks
> [ 3.948786] EXT4-fs (sda6): Cannot load crc32c driver.
> ERROR: In procedure mount:
> In procedure mount: No such file or directory
>
> Entering a new prompt. Type `,bt' for a backtrace or `,q' to continue.
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>
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> Enter `,help' for help.
> scheme@(guile-user)>
>
> Workaround or fix was to add to config.scm:
>
> (initrd (append (list "crc32c_generic" ... ) %base-initrd-modules))
There are potentially two issues here:
1. Why wasn’t crc32c_generic.ko automatically pulled in by the initrd
build code? Isn’t it a dependency of ext4.ko?
2. Is crc32c_generic built-in in our x86_64 kernel config?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
