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I recently installed Sarge using D-I in a lvm-on-raid setup,
and everything worked perfectly. The 2.4-based kernel works fine.
Out of pure geekish compulsion, I decided to "upgrade" to 2.6.9. I
compiled a new kernel (using make-kpkg) with all of the lvm and raid options
built in and installed it with dpkg, but I get a kernel panic saying something
like "linux-device-mapper failed to mount root fs". I am able to install
the stock 2.6.9-2-k7 kernel with apt and it boots fine (although I haven't yet
got the nvidia driver to work with it - separate issue). I have even
copied the .config file from the stock 2.6.9 kernel and built my own, but it
still won't boot, so I don't think it is a kernel configuration
problem.
I am fairly confident from reading today that what I need to
do is to make or copy a initrd.img file and set up initrd for my new kernel -
new territory for me that I may explore when I get home tonight. Any pertinent
suggestions would be appreciated.
My question is whether this can or should be automated,
perhaps by make-kpkg + dpkg -i. The "Debian Way" of kernel updates now
seems to update grub's menu.lst correctly - perhaps it could be made to detect
whether any initrd changes need to be made and handle them accordingly. This
message is sent in the interest of improving Debian.
I am assuming that initrd is really the issue and that I am
not on a wild goose chase, which is certainly possible.
Thanks,
David Bruce
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by my office)
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