Attempting to boot the 2.6.20-2 kernel yields the following error, after putting me in a busybox prompt.
/bin/sh: can't access tty: job control turned off (initramfs) [5.640000] ata-piix 0000:00:1f.2: invalid MAP value 0 I'm guessing that the usbhid module has not been loaded at that point, because I am unable to type anything. Additionally, after upgrading my system yesterday, it completely blew away my initrd image for the working 2.6.17 kernel, replacing it with a zero-length file (filing a bug in initramfs-tools about that now). So now I can't even boot back into the working 2.6.17 kernel. I attempted to regenerate it using update-initramfs, but received an error about udev requiring a 2.6.19 or later kernel. I hacked /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook/udev to get around this (changed minimal kernel version to 2.6.17) and re-ran it, but the resulting initrd image caused me to be thrown into a busybox console on reboot, just like that of 2.6.20 (but without the initramfs error, and with an error before the initial console message about not being able to find some raid module). The keyboard was also unusable in the console. I am beginning to suspect that this may be a problem with initramfs- tools, rather than just the kernel. I see a related workaround posted to Bug #76785 (and 76872), so I will try it next, perhaps coupled with adding usbhid and usbcore to the initrd image, if I can figure out how to do so. -- Mac Mini USB support broken in 2.6.19-6 package https://launchpad.net/bugs/72802 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
