Bug#781002: initramfs-tools: no kernel modules are insert into initrd
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 08:10:31AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> Control: retitle -1 initramfs-tools: does not support CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS
>
> On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 00:31 -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> > Sure, there you go
> >
> >
> > Now I see the problem. It runs
> > modprobe --all --set-version=3.19.2-amd64-i915-volpreempt-20141114
> > --ignore-install --quiet --show-depends multipath.ko
> > but I have
> > /lib/modules/3.19.2-amd64-i915-volpreempt-20141114/kernel/drivers/md/multipath.ko.gz
>
> > (trailing .gz)
>
> Ah, yes. I see this is a new kernel option, CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS (with
> gz and xz variants) which seems to have been introduced in v3.18-rc1.
>
> I suppose disabling that in your local builds would work around the
> issue until initramfs-tools can be taught to cope.
Yes, it was late last night when I found this, but indeed this was my
plan :)
All I needed was the way to run initramfs in debug mode and then it was
obvious.
Would you mind adding this in the man page? I could have debugged this a
while ago had I had the easy way to run it in debug mode.
Thanks,
Marc
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