Bug#534636: marked as done (linux-image-2.6-686: Diskless server fails to boot off a cramfs ramdisk)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #534636,
regarding linux-image-2.6-686: Diskless server fails to boot off a cramfs ramdisk
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Package: linux-image-2.6-686
Version: 2.6.26+17+lenny1
Severity: normal
Upgrading the diskless servers that were originally booting off cramfs ramdisks
to lenny makes these servers unbootable: the cramfs is no longer compiled
into the kernel, but it is rather built as a loadable kernel module (CONFIG_CRAMFS=m).
To load this module, the initrd must be loaded first, but that requires the cramfs module.
Catch 22.
Is there any particular reason not to compile the cramfs into the kernel as it was
done in all the previous releases?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6-686 depends on:
ii linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 2.6.26-15 Linux 2.6.26 image on PPro/Celeron
linux-image-2.6-686 recommends no packages.
linux-image-2.6-686 suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 06:56:08PM -0400, Igor Filippov wrote:
> Is there any particular reason not to compile the cramfs into the kernel as it was
> done in all the previous releases?
Use an initramfs, aka compressed cpio file. The old initrd approach is
deprecated and not longer really supported in the Debian kernels. So the
whole cramfs and similar things are not longer compiled in.
This is no bug, so closing.
Bastian
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