Bug#551733: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Cannot boot kernel 2.6.26-2-686
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Bruce Ward wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> More data. I have managed to get an initramfs debug out of the
> system and have also provided a debug from a 2.6.26-1-686 kernel
> which boots OK. I'm damned if I can see any reason from the debug
> for the recent kernel (2.6.26-2-686) to fail to boot!
>
> Interesting (but possibly not relevant) observations from my playing
> around (exploration). Remember there are only a few modules (thermal
> ones) loaded when the system drops out.
>
> 1. Load USB drivers - they find the pendrive, but no entry created in /dev.
> 2. Use mknod to create /dev/sda3 for the ext3 partition on pendrive.
> sda3 is the only SCSI entry in /dev.
> 3. Load ext3 module, and mount the sda3 partition and, behold, there
> are entries in /dev/ for sda, sda1, and sda2, as well as sda3.
> 4. Load the SATA drivers and suddenly there are sdb entries in /dev
> for all partitions on the drive I have failed to boot from.
that points a bit to udev is it running at this stage?
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