Bug#293481: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686: Cannot open root device

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Nigel Stephens wrote:
> Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686
> Version: 2.6.8-12
> Severity: normal
> 
> My current 2.6.6 kernel boots and runs OK on my Toshiba Tecra S1
> laptop. But when I try to boot the 2.6.8 (or 2.6.10) kernel the
> bootstrap fails early on like this:
> 
>   RAMDISK: Loading 4540 blocks [1 disk] into ramdisk... done.
>   VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
>   VFS: Cannot open root device "hda5" or unknown-block(0,0)
>   Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>   Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
[snip]
>   title		Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-686 
>   root		(hd0,4)
>   kernel	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro panic=60 
>   initrd	/boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-686

Looks like some driver went missing from this initrd. This would be
a bug in initrd-tools (http://bugs.debian.org/initrd-tools).


Thiemo