On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 02:17:47PM +0200, Folkert van Heusden wrote: > > > initramfs-tools: initramfs creates an initrd with not enough modules > > > causing an unbootable system > > > > > > Initially I thought this was a bug in kernel-package so I wrote this to > > > the maintainer of that package: > > > I now upgraded initramfstools (shouldn't > > > kernel-package have dependencies?) and an initrd is created. > > > The initrd is not good though: the system won't come up. Complains that > > > it can't find the volume groups. It does see a /dev/sda* though. Was an > > > initramfs shell so I couldn't investigate what was going on. > > > > please read http://wiki.debian.org/InitramfsDebug > > to provide further info. > > - sda/b are detected > - filesystem is correctly formatted (otherwise the other kernel image > would not work either) > - so the sata driver is loaded
did you try to boot with "rootdelay=12" or such? > > > According to the kernel-package maintainer this is a problem in > > > initramfs-tools. > > why do you think that there are missing modules. > > Because of the size of the initrd-files; there's a difference in site: > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52723387 2009-03-03 16:59 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-pps > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8555803 2009-04-28 23:45 > /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-rc3-pps > (2.6.26 is fine, 2.6.30-rc3 fails) well the size of the second looks fine, don't see hole lot of a diff, could you put both online somewhere? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
