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Bug#571035: marked as done (Kernel freezes at boot)

Your message dated Tue, 3 May 2011 10:49:22 +0200
with message-id <20110503104922.d2e04ef5.linux@wansing-online.de>
and subject line Re: d-i loads ide_generic but doesn't enable it in installed system
has caused the Debian Bug report #571035,
regarding Kernel freezes at boot
to be marked as done.

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Installation on Toshiba Satellite lowmem laptop:

installation went without bigger problems so far, but machine doesn't
boot into the new system. I chose to install grub2.


		Booting Debian GNU/Linux with 2.6.32-trunk-486
	Loading Linux 2.6.32-trunk-486 ...
	Loading initial ramdisk ...

appears on the screen, then the system stopps.
Sometimes I get another screen:

	Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done.
	Booting the kernel.

and then the system stopps here.



Menu entry in grub.cfg is:

	insmod ext2
	set root: (hd0,1)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set [UUID]
	echo Loading Linux 2.6.32-trunk-486 ...
	linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-486 root=UUID=[UUID] ro all_generic_ide quiet
	echo Loading initial ramdisk ...
	initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-486


which seems correct (device is hda1, filesystem is ext2, filenames are correct).


A kernel issue?
The installer kernel boots correct, which is an 2.6.30-486.




Greetings

Holger


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Hi,

Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> ide_generic is still available because it doesn't have a direct
> replacement.  However there is no way for the kernel to detect the
> controller and trigger automatic loading of the driver, as it would
> for a PCI device.  The initramfs configuration must explicitly list
> it to be included and directly loaded during boot.
> 
> I thought that if the installer loaded it then it would also ensure
> that it was loaded when booting the installed system.  So this may be
> a debian-installer bug or an initramfs-tools bug.

I close this bug because of his longstanding and complex history,
and reported a new one as follow-up: #625290 (against debian-installer).


Holger

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