Package: release-notes Severity: important The issue reported below should be documented. It may hit other architectures that have a special bus without sysfs support too, most notably hppa. Drivers that are known to be affected are: hppa: lasi700, zalon7xx sparc: esp, qlogicpti ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: sparc32: ESP not included in initrd Date: Sunday 01 April 2007 00:13 From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@chbouib.org> To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Hi, While upgrading from a 2.4 kernel to `linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc32' on a SPARCclassic, I noticed that the `esp' module is not included in the initrd that gets generated (consequently, the new kernel hangs "waiting for the root filesystem" upon reboot). This is easily fixed by, e.g., adding `esp' on a single line in `/etc/initramfs-tools/modules' (if `mkinitramfs' is being used). However, it'd be obviously nicer if this was done automatically when installing the package. I vaguely recall discussions about such problems on this list but I don't remember whether it was supposed to be fixed already. Thanks, Ludovic. -------------------------------------------------------
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