Bug#582002: Modules not loading in the proper order (initramfs-tools: s390 architecture)
severity 582002 important
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On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:39:29AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
>
> I run Debian testing (Squeeze) on the s390 architecture. I just performed
> an "aptitude update" and "aptitude full-upgrade" sequence, and among the
> updates was a new version of initramfs-tools: 0.94.4. (I noticed that
> Debian bug report 576603 was opened with a severity of "serious" with the
> apparent goal of keeping the package from migrating from Sid to Squeeze,
> and the bug has not been marked as resolved, nevertheless the package
> did migrate to Squeeze within the past few days.)
>
> The new package completely broke my system's ability to boot. Allow me
> to explain the boot mechanism that the old version successfully accomplished,
> and then explain how the new version fails. I have four different disks,
> one partition each, that are mounted on four different mount points,
> as follows:
>
> Device Mount Point
> 0200 /
> 0201 /boot
> 0202 /home
> 0203 swap
>
> I have a file called /etc/modprobe.d/dasd which contains the following
> statement:
>
> options dasd_mod dasd=0.0.0200(diag),0.0.0201,0.0.0202-0.0.0203(diag)
you need give it a .conf ending then it ends up in initramfs.
soon modprobe will not even look at your file without that ending.
this special needs to be reverted due to stable -> testing upgrade,
but will reappear soon.
> This accomplishes two things: (1) it guarantees the correspondence of
> Linux devices names to s390 device numbers as follows:
>
> Device
>
> 0200 /dev/dasda
> 0201 /dev/dasdb
> 0202 /dev/dasdc
> 0203 /dev/dasdd
>
> and (2) it specifies the device driver used for each disk as follows:
iam not familiar where this files comes from,
so please feel free to reassign to whomever who created it.
and/or maybe to release notes.
thanks
ps thanks for reminding me of 576603, will nuke that and get soonest
latest git out.
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