Bug#571035: [Daily built 23. Aug 2010] Kernel freezes at boot
Hello,
maximilian attems <max@stro.at> wrote:
> hmm so the ata generic driver might have a bug to not properly
> show up in /sys and thus not to land on initramfs.
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> > 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
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> and then rebuild that 2.6.32-5 initramfs
I did a complete new installation with the same image as before from
23. Aug 2010, it was an expert installation, but I accepted all
default values, so no custom things were done, apart from this:
Just before the initrd is generated, I added ata-generic to
/etc/initramfs-tools/modules (on the second console).
That way, the ata-generic got included in the initrd.
When I boot now, the root filesystem still cannot be found.
Some output from the initramfs-shell:
(initramfs) cat /proc/modules
ide_gd_mod 17175 0 - Live 0xc295f000
ide-core 59674 1 ide_gd_mod, Live 0xc2939000
fan 2590 0 - Live 0xc282a000
thermal 9210 0 - Live 0xc290b000
ata_generic 2015 0 - Live 0xc2820000
libata 117275 1 ata_generic, Live 0xc288c000
scsi_mod 102265 1 libata, Live 0xc2863000
(initramfs) cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-486 root=/dev/hda1 ro all_generic_ide quiet
(initramfs) ls /dev/[hs]da*
ls /dev/[hs]da*: No such file or directory
(initramfs) ls /dev/disk/by-uuid/
ls /dev/disk/by-uuid/: No such file or directory
> if that boots, I'd like to get the output of
> tree /sys
>
> thanks
>
> --
> maks
As this does not boot, I tried again a new installation, and forced to
add ide_generic to the initrd, and that works! The machine boots fine
with ide_generic.
But as this is an obsolete driver, you may not be interested in info
about this.
Thanks
Holger
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