Bug#336317: initramfs-tools: created initramfs is unable to boot a system with mirrored rootdisks

[Dominik Kubla <dominik@kubla.de>]

Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.37
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system


The created initramfs drops into a shell because /dev/md0 can not be
mounted. This is a regression from version 0.30.

The shell is unusable because USB keyboards are not fully initialized:
they are no longer working in PS/2-Emulation mode, but not yet working
in USB mode.

The system is left in an unusable state.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (700, 'testing'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-1-k7
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii  busybox                       1:1.01-3   Tiny utilities for small and embed
ii  cpio                          2.6-8      GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  klibc-utils                   1.1.1-2    small statically-linked utilities 
ii  mklibs-copy                   0.1.18     Shared library reduction script
ii  udev                          0.071-1    /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

initramfs-tools recommends no packages.

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