Bug#332824: linux-image-2.6.13-1-686: Cannot find LVM root fs

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 08:30:42PM -0400, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 23:04 +0200, Frederik Schueler wrote: 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > can you please try building the initrd with initramfs-tools and see if
> > that works?
> 
> I manually built an initramfs with:
> # mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.13-1-686 2.6.13-1-686 && lilo
> and rebooted.  The system successfully booted with the exception that
> udev did not setup the nvidia /dev entries, and X would not start.  This
> was successfully worked around using the solution presented in 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2005/09/msg00827.html
> 
> >  And if you have the time, do the same check with an initrd
> > built using yaird?
> 
> The double-zero version number and package comment "At the moment, yaird
> is lightly tested" are not confidence-inspiring.  Nonetheless the

Well, it works very well, and booted out of the box 
> yaird-built pre-init image worked as well, and was smaller than the
> initramfs image (1.6 MB vs 5.4 MB).

He nice, comparison, i suppose you need to drop the default "MODULES=most"
option of initramfs-tools and use MODULES=dep. Can we now please try to
default to MODULES=dep ? If we don't do it we will again be saddled with
MODULES=most for etch.

> > 2.6.13 has no devfs anymore, which breaks initrd in some cases, like
> > yours.

Maybe we need some way of ensuring that initrd-tools is no more used for
2.6.13+. My suggestion of mkinitrd adding --supported-target-version and
--supported-host-version calls would come in handy here, maybe we should
implement it. Any comments on this ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther