Bug#611493: kernel panics or freezes helped but not eliminated by warm reboot or "rootdelay=20"

[Pascal BERNARD <pascal.bernard1@free.fr>]

Installing Linux 3.0 from sid with linux-base, initramfs-tools and
linux-firmware makes my box boot.

Now, there is a fair distance between 2.6.38 and 3.0 + I am not an
expert in kernel internals.

I am grateful for your help, but I am afraid I will not propose a patch.

Good to have apt for the dependencies and warning from the install
script so that I could firmware in place.

I noticed no much change in the initrd, but vgchange has been replaced.
Looking at the messages attached, you can see that vgchange is at the
root of the kernel issue. And what about /dev/mapper/ not being
completed ?

Sorry for not being more helpful

Pascal