Bug#841700: linux-image-4.7.0-1-686: upgrade from 4.7.6-1 to 4.7.8-1 prevents booting; freezes during initrd loading

[Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi>]

2016-10-24 16:21 GMT+03:00 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>:
> On Mon, 2016-10-24 at 11:02 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>> > 2016-10-24 5:00 GMT+03:00 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>:
>> > Control: tag -1 moreinfo
>> >
>> > On Sat, 2016-10-22 at 16:24 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>> > > Package: src:linux
>> > > Version: 4.7.8-1
>> > > Severity: important
>> > >
>> > > After upgrading from 4.7.6-1 to 4.7.8-1 this host cannot boot under
>> > > kernel 4 anymore. The host freezes while loading the initrd image.
>> > > GRUB displays "loading linux-image", followed by "loading initrd-
>> > > image" and then become unresponsive.  By comparison, launching kernel
>> > > 3.16 from the GRUB menu, kernel messages start appearing within a few
>> > > seconds of the "loading initrd-image" GRUB message.
>> >
>> >
>> > What's the kernel command line?
>>
>>
>> BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-586
>> root=UUID=97b2628b-28a5-49f2-85f7-495728b3bef8 ro panic=15 pnpbios=off
>> cs5535audio.ac97_quirk=1 nopat quiet nosplash
>
> ... and the same parameters for 4.7?

Yup.

>> > Please also get a kernel log, by replacing the 'quiet' parameter on the
>> > boot command line with 'earlyprintk=vga'.
>>
>>
>> This still doesn't get me past the "loading initrd image" GRUB prompt.
>
> *Nothing* is logged after that?

Nothing at all.

--.Martin-Éric