Bug#501969: upgrade-reports: Etch-Lenny dist-upgrade Dell PE6850 doesn't boot past initramfs
Package: upgrade-reports
Severity: important
Dell 6850
4 3Ghz 667 Bus 8M Cache Xeons
perc4/DC
1 volume of 2 73G disks in mirror
Lenny 2.6.26-1-686-bigmem initramfs attempts to mount filesystems before detecting the disk, causing boot failure.
Reproduce by:
Install etch (pxe netinstall)
update to lenny with dist-upgrade
reboot
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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