Bug#381844: itramfs-tools doesn't produce working ramdisk on amd64 with MODULES=list

[maximilian attems]

severity 381844 important
tags 381844 moreinfo
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On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 01:06:44PM +0200, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
> 
> Package: initramfs-tools
> Version: 0.73c
> Severity: grave

that is grossly overrated severity, it works for many boots out there.
also please next time use reportbug it adds lots of useful info to
your bugreport that is missing here:

dpkg -l udev
dpkg -l module-init-tools
dpkg -l mdadm
uname -a
 
> amd64-smp
> 
> System doesn't boot. Error message is "Waiting for root file system...
> device /dev/md3 does not exist".

that is just the last snippet of the boot log,
might be intersting to have the longer bad boot blog.

also according to aboves message you have an md root.
please post from the initramfs
cat /proc/cmdline
cat /proc/mdstat
cat /proc/modules
 
> I've built initramfs by myself to solve some boot module problems and
> mdadm md device order problem recently, so I know that just the
> previous version worked.  I just made an aptitude update/upgrade and
> the only package that could be related to a non booting box is
> initramfs-tools.  The non smp kernel on this system could still boot
> but was not updated in the process of updating initramfs-tools.  I
> tried to rebuilt manually another ramdisk but even the new one (with
> unchanged setup compared to a working one that was generated with the
> previous initramfs-tools) didn't work.

hmm so mdrun seemed to have gotten the right order, strange,
anyway adding mdadm maintainer on cc as he has more questions.
 
> The size of the "not working" new one doesn't look as it is missing modules. It is even comparably larger than the one I fortunately left in my /root dir and that I'm currently using.
> 
> I've no idea on how I could collect more info to help solving the problem.

sending the output of aboves questions would help to nail
the problem you run into, adding working dmesg might help too.

thanks for your report

-- 
maks