Bug#375194: Can you test 2.6.18-rc7 ...

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 07:25:29PM +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
> > 
> > > Begin: Waiting for root filesystem... ...
> > > 
> > > Then displays a message that it cannot load i8042.ko and drops me to a
> > > Busybox (initramfs) shell.  Anyway, I thank both of you, there seems
> > > to be a progress.  I'll test whatever you say to help you fix it.
> > 
> > Mmm, there is no reason why it should try to load i8042 on your gossamer pmac,
> > which has no such hardware.
> > 
> > Can you please reopen a new bug report about this against initramfs-tools ?
> > Preferably with the serial log ? 
> 
> I will certainly file a bug, if you could be so kind to tell me what
> do you mean by "serial log"?  I searched for a specific log but
> couldn't find one.  If what you mean is to retype the error messsages
> that appear on the console, I'll do that, of course.

ppc builds modular input i8042, so we need to try to modprobe it.

is your root device there when you are dropped to the rescue shell?
what are your bootargs?
cat /proc/cmdline

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maks