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

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Pascal BERNARD wrote:

> I attach the diff of the initrd from the stable initramfs-tool with the
> initrd generated by sid initramfs-tool. I can't see anything that could
> explain such a dramatic change in behaviour.

Could be timing-related.  One way to learn more would be to try
various versions of initramfs-tools from snapshot.debian.org to find
when the change occured.

The scientist's mantra: manipulate one variable, keeping everything
else the same.