Bug#450838: initrd images for sparc64 f do not allow booting machines
Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.91b
Severity: critical
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When booting, many segmentation faults are encountered and then
an ash shell prompt is given. The log complains from not being able
to mount /dev/hda2 on /root, but within the shell executing the command
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda2 /root will work.
The kernel-image package installation script seems to regenerate initrd
images for all kernel images. This prevents booting unless falling back
to old/bakuped initrd images. These will boot normally with the same kernel
As the old initrd tools are not available, this failure may be fatale for
many systems, that's why I consider this bug critical.
--- System information. ---
Architecture: sparc
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-sparc64
Debian Release: lenny/sid
500 unstable ftp.fr.debian.org
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
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klibc-utils (>= 1.5.6-1) | 1.5.7-2
cpio | 2.9-4
module-init-tools | 3.3-pre11-4
udev (>= 0.086-1) | 0.114-2
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