Bug#332824: fixed udev -> fixed initramfs-tools?

[Jonathan Brandmeyer <jbrandmeyer@earthlink.net>]

On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 00:12 +0100, Maximilian Attems wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 11:33:06AM -0500, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 19:18 +0100, maximilian attems wrote:
> > > please retest with latest initramfs-tools in unstable aka version 0.41.
> > > it needs latest udev 0.76-3 too.
> > > the various seen timing bugs should be fixed thanks to newer udev.
> > 
> > 0.41 with udev 0.076-4 works.  However, the latest upgrade to 0.42 with
> > udev 0.076-6 rendered my AMD64 partition unbootable, so I am avoiding
> > the upgrade on my IA32 partition.
> > 
> > 0.42 fails to find the root fs, and kicks me out to a busybox
> > shell.  /dev/mapper/control exists (recall that I'm running root on
> > LVM), but none of the logical volumes are available.
> > 
> > As a wishlist item, this shell doesn't have either "halt", "reboot", or
> > "shutdown" - you have to Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart the system.
> 
> latest udev might not bring up ide-disk or/and ide-generic,
> due to a debian kernel bug.
> add them to /etc/initramfs/modules and update-initramfs -u
> 
> also an output of the loaded modules from the shell would help
> to tell what your trouble is aka cat /proc/modules.

I can confirm that ide-disk and ide-generic are not being loaded,
however they are present in the initrd.

I can modprobe them in manually from the busybox shell
(however, /dev/mapper/ does not get populated when I do so).  I can also
edit any file in the initrd using g[un]zip and cpio.  However, I cannot
simply run update-initramfs since I cannot boot the 64-bit system.

So, what do I need to edit to fix this?  Alternatively, what command
should I try to run after modprobing in ide-disk and ide-generic?

Thanks,
-Jonathan