> It looks like a lot of shell scripty stuff. Not outside of my domain, but
> not my specialty. I can check it out...
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Émeric Maschino <
emeric.maschino@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Well, I've bisected and reported the offending commit.
>>
>> I've downloaded the source package and recompiled various versions,
>> with and without the offending commit but don't understand what's
>> going wrong (everything is reported in the bug report if you're
>> interested): basically, this commit should simply replace symbolic
>> links to files by copies of files in the generated initrd.img, but
>> something is broken somewhere. It eventually ends up with an incorrect
>> /bin/sh script in initrd.img that is a copy of /usr/lib/klibc/bin/sh
>> whereas in working initrd.img, /bin/sh is a copy of /bin/busybox. It's
>> all I can say and I didn't get recent advice from the initramfs-tools
>> team that would help further debugging.
>>
>> Émeric
>>
>>
>> Le 13 janvier 2012 21:19, Patrick Baggett <
baggett.patrick@gmail.com> a
>> écrit :
>> > Indeed it is. It's good to know my hardware works OK.
>> >
>> > This bug was reported August 2011 and now it's Jan 2012 and still no
>> > work
>> > around. Is there anything I can do to help? Compile a kernel from git?
>> > Test
>> > a patch? I'm a fairly competent programmer -- is there any explanation
>> > of
>> > the issue that just needs some programmer love? I don't have any
>> > experience
>> > with IA64 assembly, unfortunately, but I can do quite a bit in C.
>> >
>> > Patrick
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Émeric Maschino
>> > <
emeric.maschino@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Patrick,
>> >>
>> >> And welcome aboard :-)
>> >>
>> >> Aren't you hitting this issue?
>> >>
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=638068
>> >>
>> >> In this case, the only solution at this time is to downgrade
>> >> initramfs-tools from 0.99 to 0.98.8. But you'll have to downgrade
>> >> kernel too, as Debian kernels > 2.6.39 require initramfs-tools 0.99.
>> >>
>> >> Hope this helps,
>> >>
>> >> Émeric
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Le 13 janvier 2012 16:16, Patrick Baggett <
baggett.patrick@gmail.com> a
>> >> écrit :
>> >> > All,
>> >> >
>> >> > I just got an HP ZX6000, and I'm very pleased with how quickly Debian
>> >> > "squeeze" installed on it. I have Debian "testing" running on SPARC
>> >> > as
>> >> > well,
>> >> > and I figured I'd go ahead and move the ia64 system to testing. When
>> >> > I
>> >> > did
>> >> > however, the system became unbootable. It uncompressed the kernel and
>> >> > initrd, and then just stopped. I figured I must have done something
>> >> > dumb, so
>> >> > I wiped the disk, redid the installation and made sure I had the
>> >> > firmware
>> >> > (required for radeon and tigon3 drivers apparently). It still failed
>> >> > to
>> >> > boot
>> >> > in the same way. It seems there may be a problem with the
>> >> > linux-kernel-3.1.0-mckinley package, because the kernel itself
>> >> > doesn't
>> >> > even
>> >> > output a single message before it dies. Anyone run into a similar
>> >> > issue?
>> >> > I
>> >> > wouldn't mind filing a bug, but I don't know how to get a backtrace
>> >> > this
>> >> > early in the boot process.
>> >> >
>> >> > Patrick
>> >
>> >
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