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Bug#762634: initramfs-tools: [armhf] mounting rootfs on USB disk fails / some USB host controller drivers missing in initramfs



On 2016-02-04, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 15:43 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>> On 2016-01-25, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> > On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 09:49:33 +0000 Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote:
>> > > On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 18:46 -0600, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>> > > > Would definitely like to see this, with a recent install on a Wandboard
>> > > > Dual with a USB2 sata disk for the rootfs. It installed fine with
>> > > > jessie's debian-installer, but failed on initial boot.
>> > > >  
>> > > > I worked around it by adding to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules:
>> > > >  
>> > > >   ci_hdrc_imx
>> > > >   phy_mxs_usb
>> > > >  
>> > > > I haven't yet verified if only adding "phy_mxs_usb" instead of both will
>> > > > work.
>> ...
>> > > I think Ben essentially did this in #762042[0], which ends up adding any
>> > > phy-* which are currently loaded to the initramfs. That change appears to
>> > > be in v0.119 while Jessie has v0.120 so perhaps something else is going on.
>> > >  
>> > > ci-* isn't covered by this logic, so that might be it in the first case.
>> > > What is ci-*?
>> > 
>> > Thaose are the chipidea USB controller drivers, which should get found
>> > through sysfs.
>> > 
>> > Please can you clear out /etc/initramfs-tools/modules (temporarily) and
>> > run:
>> > 
>> >     sh -x /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs -o /dev/null 3.16.0-4-armmp >mkinitramfs.log 2>&1
>> > 
>> > Then send the log so we can see how this is going wrong.
>> 
>> Attached is a log of the above command with /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
>> cleared out.
>
> Oh, so the MODULES=most case is bust and we need to list more host
> controller drivers (or include all modules under drivers/usb/host/).
> How about MODULES=dep; does that work now?

MODULES=dep appears to pull in the necessary drivers on a recent stretch
install on a wandboard solo, using initramfs-tools 0.123, but
MODULES=most still requires manually including them in
/etc/initramfs-tools/modules.


live well,
  vagrant

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