Bug#551733: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Cannot boot kernel 2.6.26-2-686

[Bruce Ward <bmward@orcon.net.nz>]

maximilian attems wrote:
> 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?
>  

Yes, udev is running. Attached is a ps capture as soon as I had the 
pendrive mounted.

When the boot stopped, the listing of processes stopped at PID 732. udev 
is there before running the rescue shell.

Bruce

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Bruce Ward, Nelson, New Zealand

PID   USER     COMMAND
    1 0        /bin/sh /init 
    2 0        [kthreadd]
    3 0        [migration/0]
    4 0        [ksoftirqd/0]
    5 0        [watchdog/0]
    6 0        [events/0]
    7 0        [khelper]
   39 0        [kblockd/0]
   41 0        [kacpid]
   42 0        [kacpi_notify]
  149 0        [kseriod]
  186 0        [pdflush]
  187 0        [pdflush]
  188 0        [kswapd0]
  189 0        [aio/0]
  396 0        udevd --daemon 
  732 0        /bin/sh -i 
  736 0        [ksuspend_usbd]
  739 0        [khubd]
  788 0        [scsi_eh_0]
  789 0        [usb-storage]
  842 0        [kjournald]
  843 0        ps