Bug#310420: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686: does not boot (fails in init) after upgrading from 2.6.11-3

[Y Giridhar Appaji Nag <debian@appaji.net>]

On 05/05/23 18:49 +0530, Giridhar - Debian said ...
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> [snip]
> hda: Host Protected Area disabled.
> hda: 78156288 sectors (40016 MB) w/1821KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 p11 p12 p13 p14 p15 >
> Kernel can not convert a name into desc number
> Check your 'root=' argument passed on boot by bootloader.
> initrd-tools: 0.1.80
> /sbin/init: 360: cannot open bin/root: no such file
> umount: bin: not mounted
> /sbin/init: 362: cannot create proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev: Directory non existant
> cat: proc/cmdline: No such file or directory
> umount: proc not mounted
> [snip]

I don't know the complete boot process and how initrd works, but I have
included some more information related to the initrd.img in the and the
above error messages:

$ sudo mount /boot/initrd.img-2.6.11-1-686 -o loop /mnt/c
$ pwd
/mnt/c
$ ls bin/root
ls: bin/root: No such file or directory
$ ls proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev
ls: proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev: No such file or directory
$ ls proc/cmdline
ls: proc/cmdline: No such file or directory

Giridhar

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