Bug#774579: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: Kernel fails to boot - cannot find root

[Dave Williams <d.r.williams.01@cantab.net>]

Hi Ben,

OK - so far I've got:
- 3.14.15-2 works (found a .deb in apt archives on another machine)
- 3.15.5 works (built this from source, but without applying debian patches (i.e. just unpackaged linux_3.15.5.orig.tar.xz and built that - haven't worked out how to apply all the debian patches yet (I'm assuming it's not tricky? I just haven't had time to find out how it's done)))
- 3.16.7-ckt2-1 does not work (again - this is a pre-built .deb)

I'll keep you posted as I try different versions.
If there are any particular versions where changes were made to the ata-piix driver (or whatever it depends on), then I can try them. Otherwise I'll just keep doing what I'm doing...  Next one I've downloaded source for is 3.16.2. I'll let you know how that one pans out.

Cheers,
Dave

On 4 January 2015 at 19:51, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:

Control: tag -1 moreinfo
Control: severity -1 important

On Sun, 2015-01-04 at 17:15 +0000, Dave wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 3.16.7-ckt2-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Hi,
>
> At some point between the 3.13 and the 3.16 kernels, the ata-piix driver appears to have broken for my hardware (I don't
> have the intermediate versions to check precisely which version it broke at).
[...]

The intermediate versions are available at
<http://snapshot.debian.org/package/linux/>; please try some to work out
where this broke.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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