Bug#841700: linux-image-4.7.0-1-686: upgrade from 4.7.6-1 to 4.7.8-1 prevents booting; freezes during initrd loading

[Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi>]

2016-10-24 5:00 GMT+03:00 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>:
> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
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> On Sat, 2016-10-22 at 16:24 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>> Package: src:linux
>> Version: 4.7.8-1
>> Severity: important
>>
>> After upgrading from 4.7.6-1 to 4.7.8-1 this host cannot boot under
>> kernel 4 anymore. The host freezes while loading the initrd image.
>> GRUB displays "loading linux-image", followed by "loading initrd-
>> image" and then become unresponsive.  By comparison, launching kernel
>> 3.16 from the GRUB menu, kernel messages start appearing within a few
>> seconds of the "loading initrd-image" GRUB message.
>
> What's the kernel command line?

BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-586
root=UUID=97b2628b-28a5-49f2-85f7-495728b3bef8 ro panic=15 pnpbios=off
cs5535audio.ac97_quirk=1 nopat quiet nosplash

> Please also get a kernel log, by replacing the 'quiet' parameter on the
> boot command line with 'earlyprintk=vga'.

This still doesn't get me past the "loading initrd image" GRUB prompt.

Martin-Éric