Bug#320091: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386: Boot fails with a syntax error in /scripts/ext3-add-journal.sh

[Dustin <laurence@alice.caltech.edu>]

More info.  I have a couple of other kernels that I tend to forget because
they break my sound config.  One is a custom build with IDE DMA and
realtime-lsm support, and more interestingly the other is a stock Debian
2.6.8-2-k7.  I realized sometime in the middle of the night that looking
at the loadmodules list for this broken kernel has told me how to fix the
audio problems in the other kernels, so they can now be regarded as
working as well as 2.6.8-1-386 does.  In any case they boot.

2.6.8-2-k7 has the same ext3-add-journal script as 2.6.8-2-386 and it
works, so that script doesn't seem like a good candidate for the problem.
Similarly, the way I fixed the audio problems was to copy over the short
loadmodules list from 2.6.8-1-386.  Since they all boot with it and
2.6.8-2-386 doesn't, I doubt playing with the modules will fix it either.

That frankly runs me about out of ideas, so I hope it suggests some
further options to you.  I would rather not just say "fine, run 2.6.8-2-k7
then" because while I was building the custom kernel I had a lot of
trouble with builds that had the same problem 2.6.8-2-386 does, so I fear
there is a problem that I don't understand and that will pop up again and
prevent me from doing security upgrades sometime in the future.

Dustin