Bug#526102: initramfs-tools: initramfs creates an initrd with not enough modules causing an unbootable system
> > > please read http://wiki.debian.org/InitramfsDebug
> > > to provide further info.
> >
> > - sda/b are detected
> > - filesystem is correctly formatted (otherwise the other kernel image
> > would not work either)
> > - so the sata driver is loaded
>
> did you try to boot with "rootdelay=12" or such?
Will do that (and trying to get that logfile of the system) friday
(system is in a remote location).
> > > > According to the kernel-package maintainer this is a problem in initramfs-tools.
> > > why do you think that there are missing modules.
> >
> > Because of the size of the initrd-files; there's a difference in site:
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52723387 2009-03-03 16:59 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-pps
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8555803 2009-04-28 23:45 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-rc3-pps
> > (2.6.26 is fine, 2.6.30-rc3 fails)
>
> well the size of the second looks fine,
> don't see hole lot of a diff, could you put both online somewhere?
http://keetweej.vanheusden.com/~folkert/initrd.img-2.6.26-pps
http://keetweej.vanheusden.com/~folkert/initrd.img-2.6.30-rc3-pps
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