Bug#293569: Add megaraid to /etc/mkinitrd/modules doesn't work out

[Martin Alain Kretschek <martinalain@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I've tried to add megaraid to /etc/mkinitrd/modules but still doesn't work out

I've modified the /etc/mkinitrd/modules as sugested by Horms...

~# cat /etc/mkinitrd/modules         
# /etc/mkinitrd/modules: Kernel modules to load for initrd.
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules and their arguments
# (if any) that are needed to mount the root file system, one per line.
# Comments begin with a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored.
#
# You must run mkinitrd(8) to effect this change.
#
# Examples:
#
#  ext2
#  wd io=0x300
megaraid

Then I've installed the kernel-package for 686-smp (I used my
machine's mirror (apt-move generated)  to avoid new dowload, I've
checkeout and this is the last kernel-image package available):

~# dpkg -i /mirrors/debian/pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.6.8-i386/kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp_2.6.8-13_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp.
(Reading database ... 23224 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp (from
.../kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp_2.6.8-13_i386.deb) ...
Setting up kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp (2.6.8-13) ...
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: add_modules_dep_2_5: modprobe failed
FATAL: Module megaraid2 not found.
WARNING: This failure MAY indicate that your kernel will not boot!
but it can also be triggered by needed modules being compiled into
the kernel.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub .
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst .
Searching for splash image... none found, skipping...
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-686-smp
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-686-smp
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

So I've checked out mkinitrd works as expected:

~# mount /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-686-smp /mnt/ -o ro,loop
~# cat /mnt/loadmodules 
modprobe -k  megaraid
modprobe -k  vesafb > /dev/null 2>&1
modprobe -k  fbcon 2> /dev/null
modprobe -k  unix 2> /dev/null
modprobe -k  megaraid2
modprobe -k  sd_mod
~# cat /mnt/linuxrc.conf 
DELAY=0
BUSYBOX=
FSTYPES=ext3,ext2,xfs,cramfs
IDE_CORE=ide-mod
VERSION=0.1.77

Maybe the problem is the order of modules on loadmodules as we can see
on loadmodules file megaraid is the first module and it should be just
before megaraid2 (that won't load because it doesn't exist on kernel
2.6.8) is this correct or the order doesn't matter?

Then I've boot the machine and get the expected "Kernel Panic".

-- 
Martin Alain Kretschek              e-mail: martinalain@gmail.com