Bug#551733: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Cannot boot kernel 2.6.26-2-686
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?
And more data. Attached is the list of entries in /dev at fail-time. Not
extensive and no subdirectories. It seems that udev is doing something,
but not enough.
Bruce
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Bruce Ward, Nelson, New Zealand
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 5, 1 Feb 12 19:12 console
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 10, 63 Feb 12 19:11 cpu_dma_latency
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 7 Feb 12 19:11 full
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 10, 228 Feb 12 19:11 hpet
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 2 Feb 12 19:11 kmem
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 11 Feb 12 19:11 kmsg
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 1 Feb 12 19:11 mem
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 13, 63 Feb 12 19:11 mice
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 10, 62 Feb 12 19:11 network_latency
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 10, 61 Feb 12 19:11 network_throughput
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 3 Feb 12 19:11 null
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 4 Feb 12 19:11 port
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 10, 1 Feb 12 19:11 psaux
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 5, 2 Feb 12 19:11 ptmx
brw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 0 Feb 12 19:11 ram0
brw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 1 Feb 12 19:11 ram1
brw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 10 Feb 12 19:11 ram10
brw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 11 Feb 12 19:11 ram11
brw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 12 Feb 12 19:11 ram12
brw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 13 Feb 12 19:11 ram13
brw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 14 Feb 12 19:11 ram14
brw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 15 Feb 12 19:11 ram15
brw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 2 Feb 12 19:11 ram2
brw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 3 Feb 12 19:11 ram3
brw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 4 Feb 12 19:11 ram4
brw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 5 Feb 12 19:11 ram5
brw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 6 Feb 12 19:11 ram6
brw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 7 Feb 12 19:11 ram7
brw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 8 Feb 12 19:11 ram8
brw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 9 Feb 12 19:11 ram9
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 8 Feb 12 19:11 random
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 254, 0 Feb 12 19:11 rtc0
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 10, 231 Feb 12 19:11 snapshot
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 5, 0 Feb 12 19:11 tty
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 0 Feb 12 19:11 tty0
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 1 Feb 12 19:11 tty1
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 10 Feb 12 19:11 tty10
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 11 Feb 12 19:11 tty11
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 12 Feb 12 19:11 tty12
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 13 Feb 12 19:11 tty13
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 14 Feb 12 19:11 tty14
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 15 Feb 12 19:11 tty15
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 16 Feb 12 19:11 tty16
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 17 Feb 12 19:11 tty17
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 18 Feb 12 19:11 tty18
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 19 Feb 12 19:11 tty19
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 2 Feb 12 19:11 tty2
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 20 Feb 12 19:11 tty20
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 21 Feb 12 19:11 tty21
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 22 Feb 12 19:11 tty22
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 23 Feb 12 19:11 tty23
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 24 Feb 12 19:11 tty24
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 25 Feb 12 19:11 tty25
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 26 Feb 12 19:11 tty26
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 27 Feb 12 19:11 tty27
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 28 Feb 12 19:11 tty28
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 29 Feb 12 19:11 tty29
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 3 Feb 12 19:11 tty3
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 30 Feb 12 19:11 tty30
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 31 Feb 12 19:11 tty31
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 32 Feb 12 19:11 tty32
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 33 Feb 12 19:11 tty33
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 34 Feb 12 19:11 tty34
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 35 Feb 12 19:11 tty35
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 36 Feb 12 19:11 tty36
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 37 Feb 12 19:11 tty37
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 38 Feb 12 19:11 tty38
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 39 Feb 12 19:11 tty39
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 4 Feb 12 19:11 tty4
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 40 Feb 12 19:11 tty40
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 41 Feb 12 19:11 tty41
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 42 Feb 12 19:11 tty42
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 43 Feb 12 19:11 tty43
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 44 Feb 12 19:11 tty44
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 45 Feb 12 19:11 tty45
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 46 Feb 12 19:11 tty46
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 47 Feb 12 19:11 tty47
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 48 Feb 12 19:11 tty48
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 49 Feb 12 19:11 tty49
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 5 Feb 12 19:11 tty5
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 50 Feb 12 19:11 tty50
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 51 Feb 12 19:11 tty51
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 52 Feb 12 19:11 tty52
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 53 Feb 12 19:11 tty53
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 54 Feb 12 19:11 tty54
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 55 Feb 12 19:11 tty55
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 56 Feb 12 19:11 tty56
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 57 Feb 12 19:11 tty57
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 58 Feb 12 19:11 tty58
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 59 Feb 12 19:11 tty59
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 6 Feb 12 19:11 tty6
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 60 Feb 12 19:11 tty60
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 61 Feb 12 19:11 tty61
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 62 Feb 12 19:11 tty62
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 63 Feb 12 19:11 tty63
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 7 Feb 12 19:11 tty7
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 8 Feb 12 19:11 tty8
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 9 Feb 12 19:11 tty9
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 64 Feb 12 19:11 ttyS0
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 65 Feb 12 19:11 ttyS1
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 66 Feb 12 19:11 ttyS2
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 4, 67 Feb 12 19:11 ttyS3
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 9 Feb 12 19:11 urandom
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 7, 0 Feb 12 19:11 vcs
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 7, 1 Feb 12 19:11 vcs1
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 7, 128 Feb 12 19:11 vcsa
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 7, 129 Feb 12 19:11 vcsa1
crw-rw---- 1 0 0 1, 5 Feb 12 19:11 zero
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