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Bug#551733: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Cannot boot kernel 2.6.26-2-686

Package: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686
Version: 2.6.26-19
Severity: important

Kernel image 2.6.26-1-686 is no problem. 2.6.26-2-686 drops me to a shell titled (initramfs) shortly after issuing the message:
 "Booting the kernel."
It never gets to "Loading, please wait ..."

Before I get control there are a (large) number of screen messages of the form:
 /init: line1:  /bin/sleep:  not found
and then
 "Gave up waiting for root device"
and
 "ALERT! /dev/disk/by-label/D5root does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

At this stage, looking at the filesystem available in initramfs:
 there is no /dev/disk/ directory although /dev exists,
 /proc/modules contains only thermal_sys, fan, processor, and thermal,
 /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/ appears well-populated,
 /sbin contains only 7 files  (depmod, modprobe, resume, rmmod, udevadm, udevd, udevsettle),
 /bin/sleep exists so the multiple /init errors are not looking for /bin/sleep.

I am using GRUB (legacy) and root=LABEL statements identical to the ones which boot 2.6.26-1-686 without any problem. I have regenerated the initrd-img a number of times to no effect.


-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.26     Debian configuration management sy
ii  initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.93.2     tools for generating an initramfs
ii  module-init-tools             3.7-pre9-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 recommends:
ii  libc6-i686                    2.7-18     GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 suggests:
ii  grub                       0.97-47lenny2 GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy v
pn  linux-doc-2.6.26           <none>        (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.26-2-686:
  shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.26-2-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.26-2-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.26-2-686:
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.26-2-686: false
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.26-2-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.26-2-686:
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.26-2-686:
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.26-2-686: false
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.26-2-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.26-2-686:
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.26-2-686:
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.26-2-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.26-2-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.26-2-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.26-2-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.26-2-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.26-2-686: true
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