Bug#571035: [Daily built 23. Aug 2010] Kernel freezes at boot [Was: [squeeze alpha1] installationsreport: grub2: machine doesn't boot]

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Holger Wansing wrote:

> ted@debian:~/Desktop/571035$ lsinitramfs initrd-in-question | grep modules
> conf/modules
> lib/modules
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/fs
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/fs/mbcache.ko
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/fs/ext2
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.ko
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/drivers
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/drivers/ide
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-core.ko
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-gd_mod.ko
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd_mod.ko
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/drivers/cdrom
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.ko
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/drivers/scsi
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/drivers/scsi/sd_mod.ko
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/drivers/virtio
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.ko
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/drivers/thermal
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.ko
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/drivers/acpi
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/drivers/acpi/fan.ko
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/drivers/acpi/thermal.ko
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/drivers/md
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mod.ko
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/lib
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/kernel/lib/crc-t10dif.ko
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/modules.dep.bin
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/modules.dep
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/modules.alias.bin
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/modules.alias
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/modules.symbols.bin
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/modules.softdep
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/modules.symbols
> lib/modules/2.6.32-5-486/modules.devname

hmm so the ata generic driver might have a bug to not properly
show up in /sys and thus not to land on initramfs.
 
 
 
> I know, that in the past, the module ide_generic was needed for
> this machine to access the harddisc.

so to boot it I would simply add as quick& dirty workaround
echo ata-generic >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules

and then rebuild that 2.6.32-5 initramfs

if that boots, I'd like to get the output of
tree /sys

thanks
 
-- 
maks