Package: upgrade-reports Severity: normal I have personally encountered the problem referenced at 4.6.3 of the upgrade release notes, on several systems. All of them boot from software mirror RAID on SCSI hardware from 2002 to 2006 vintage. In each case, I needed to add the kernel option rootdelay=9 to allow the system to boot.
I did not find the solution in the release notes because the symptoms of the problem are not specifically mentioned in 4.6.3. When the problem happens, to the end user point of view, it fails to find the root file system and dumps us out to the initramfs prompt. We are not aware this is a timing issue with udev, so the heading "Boot timing issues" does not catch the eye. The current heading does not describe the problem well from the end user perspective. I feel this problem would be identified in the release notes if there is specific mention of the initramfs shell/prompt rather than the vague reference to "a debug shell". If that section could be rewritten to describe what happens from the end user's perspective, with details like what text is shown, what prompt appears, it would help. I also feel this issue should be found under section 4.5 (possible issues during upgrade). -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
