Bug#362816: initramfs-tools: Initramfs-tools creates a buggy initrd image file.
severity 362816 important
tags 362816 moreinfo
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Fabien Fivaz wrote:
> Package: initramfs-tools
> Version: 0.59b
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
nack it works on many boxes out there according to popcon stats.
also next time when you submit a bug report,
please paste the error message right away.
> Today, I updated my system. It updated two things important I think :
> linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 and initramfs-tools. Strangely, linux-image was
> already the same version, so apt just updated a up-to-date package.
>
> But after rebooting (as it asked for during the install process), I
> received the following message : "Begin : Waiting for root file
> system..." and waiting for about 4 minutes, the Busybox shell was shown.
did you check in the rescue shell:
a) if your root device existed
b) if your relevant modules where loaded
> After some research, it turned out that the initrd image file had a
> problem. I tred to fix it creating a new initrd image with mkinitramfs
> -k 2.6.15-1-686 -u -t, but it showed the same problem at boot up. Then I
> used mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd-img-2.6.15-1-686 2.6.15-1-686 and it
> worked well on reboot.
please use update-initramfs the command line syntax you are showing above
doesn't work for mkinitramfs
> Strange, isn't it ?
if not working i need the output of the following commands
cat /proc/cmdline
lsmod
> -- System Information:
> Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
> ii busybox 1:1.01-4 Tiny utilities for small and embed
> ii cpio 2.6-11 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
> ii klibc-utils 1.2.4-1 small statically-linked utilities
> ii module-init-tools 3.2.2-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
> ii udev 0.085-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
your system is not up2date you need to upgrade to latest udev!
please retest then with update-initramfs.
--
maks
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