Bug#588675: / left as /dev/root with non-initrd kernel
On 12/02/2015 01:23 PM, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> Could you confirm a few things about what you've seen of bug 588675?
>
> Did you observe the behavior prior to Debian wheezy/Linux kernel 3.2?
>
> What type of disk/controller/disk subsystem is on your powerpc system?
>
> From your mention of /dev/sda6 in bug #588675 it is clear as of Debian
> wheezy/Linux kernel 3.2 that the disk/controller plugs into the SCSI
> subsystem. I'm pretty sure this is a SCSI subsystem bug, since you've
> also seen the behavior I'd like to confirm this has followed the SCSI
> subsystem for you as well.
Wow, that's an old bug :-)
I had to reinstall the PowerBook with Wheezy due to a disk failure and
after that I've upgraded from Wheezy to Jessie and the problem is gone now.
I can't tell if I've seen this prior to Linux 3.2 kernels. If it helps I
could try to boot an older Debian/wheezy live-cd and see if the rootfs
comes up twice.
The disk controller of this PowerBook G4 is:
0002:20:0d.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Apple Inc. UniNorth/Intrepid ATA/100
I've used BLK_DEV_IDE_PMAC ages ago, but have switched to PATA_MACIO for
a while now. But again, I can't tell when the double "/" entry occured
first, I noticed it only at the time of my bug entry (wheezy 7.3).
I'm still using a self-compiled kernel but the issue is gone now, at
least on this system:
$ uname -r; grep root /proc/mounts
4.3.0-11626-g5d50ac7
/dev/root / jfs rw,nodev,relatime 0 0
HTH,
Christian.
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