On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:47:49AM +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > Package: initramfs-tools > Version: 0.92o > Severity: important > > After upgrading from etch to lenny the new kernel would not boot, but stop > with a message "Waiting for > root file system". The root file system is on a luks partiton as > /dev/mapper/root. As suggested in the > debian docs I added a file system label to /etc/fstab to avoid possible > /dev/hda - /dev/sda confusions > with a new kernel before upgrading, so the line for the root partition in > /etc/fstab looked like: > > LABEL=CRYPTOROOT / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 > 1 > > When I opened the initrd.img with gzip and cpio I found the > conf/conf.d/cryptroot was missing; when I > added it manually and re-packaged the initrd.img the system would boot up > normally. > On a web search I found the discussion about bug #507721 and although I was > not able to fully understand > the technical details I thought it resembled my problems a lot. I then just > tried to replace the > LABEL=CRYPTROOT in /etc/fstab with /dev/mapper/root and ran update-initramfs > again which then resulted > in a correct initrd.img, so it looks like initramfs-tools does not handle > file system labels correctly.
did you try to pass a "rootdelay=12" bootparam? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
