On Sun, 2011-10-23 at 20:19 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 3.0.0-5 > Severity: important > > This powermac G4 "cube" has been running fine with 2.6.38 + squeeze > for a while. I just upgraded to 3.0.0 from sid, and found that > booting the machine fails by dropping into an initramfs shell, unable > to find the root filesystem.
I think this is the same problem as #641210. > from the initramfs shell, i can work around this by doing: > > modprobe pata_macio > exit > > at which point, the boot proceeds as usual. > > It seems to me that this module should be auto-loaded (or at least > somehow detected for this particular hardware). [...] So far as I am aware, we can't auto-load it. Instead we have to make it built-in. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction.
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