Bug#482773: linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64: bootprocess hangs after "Begin: Waiting for the root filesystem... ..."

[Jesus Christus <soylentcorp@gmx.net>]

Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64
Version: 2.6.25-3
Severity: important


Hi,
the kernel in unstable doesn't boot for some reason. The last message it 
prints is "Begin: Waiting for root filesystem... ...". I do think that 
this has something to do with the initramfs. According to google the 
initramfs is too large to be loaded, or something. 

I've already tried to downgrade the initramfs-tools to the old 
etch-version, but that didn't change a thing. 
I've also tried to rebuild a smaller initramfs by changing 
"MODULES=most" to "MODULES=dep" in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf 
running "update-initramfs -k 2.6.25-2-amd64 -u -v". But the bootprocess 
still hung.

Please tell me, if you have any ideas what the problem is, or what I 
could do, to get additional informations.




-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.22     Debian configuration management sy
ii  initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.92a      tools for generating an initramfs
ii  module-init-tools             3.4-1      tools for managing Linux kernel mo

linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64 recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
  linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.25-2-amd64:
  linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.25-2-amd64: true
  linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.25-2-amd64: true
  linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.25-2-amd64: true
  linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.25-2-amd64:
  linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64/preinst/abort-install-2.6.25-2-amd64:
  linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
  linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.25-2-amd64: false
  linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.25-2-amd64:
  linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.25-2-amd64: true
  linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.25-2-amd64: true
  linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.25-2-amd64: true
  linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.25-2-amd64: false
  linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.25-2-amd64: true
  linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.25-2-amd64: true
  linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.25-2-amd64:
  linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.25-2-amd64: true
  linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
  linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64/preinst/initrd-2.6.25-2-amd64:
  linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.25-2-amd64: true