maximilian attems wrote:
you need to regenerate your initramfs image:
update-initramfs -u
probably
update-initramfs -t -u
and reboot with it, please tell which messages you still see afterwards.
also be warned that current udev/initramfs-tools seems to forget about
ide-generic if you need it add it before as a line in
/etc/mkiniramfs/modules or modprobe it when dropped into the shell
while booting.
I have done:
update-initramfs -u -t -v
Then i've rebooted and, as you warned me, the startup stopped with the
BusyBox shell. Here is the last output i have annoted trying to boot in
recovery mode:
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Begin: mounting root filesystem...
Begin: running /scripts/local-top...
Done.
udev-event[3027]: run_program: exec of program '/etc/init.d/hdparm' failed
ALERT! /dev/hda2 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
BusyBox v1.01 (Debian 1:1.01-4)...
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
/ # udevd-event[3031]: run_program: exec of program '/etc/init.d/hdparm'
failed
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If i modprobe ide-generic and exit from the shell the system boot
normally. But since i remember someone on the mailing list saying that
he simply exited from the shell without doing nothing, i have also tryed
this. It's true: if you reboot and type exit at the busybox shell, the
system start normally.
In each of these cases, however, the disk is much more slower. From what
i remember from various discussion on the mailing list, i think that DMA
is disabled. Probably because of the hdparm errors i have reported.
I haven't tryed to add ide-generic to "/etc/mkiniramfs/modules", since i
completely don't know how initramfs works and i feel unsure running
mkinitramfs without sufficient knowledge. Since i know that a new kernel
image is arriving (or it is already arrived, but not on my mirror), i
wait that since it should restore all. Isn't it?
However i can't understand why my system was going well until some
minutes ago and now i have to add ide-generic to etc/mkiniramfs/modules
to make my system boot. Where was it before i launched update-initramfs?
If it can help with the ide-generic dilemma, my system is a Sony Vaio
notebook: intel centrino with chipset 855.
Regards.
Cesare.
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