Bug#501969: upgrade-reports: Etch-Lenny dist-upgrade Dell PE6850 doesn't boot past initramfs

[Ian McDonald <iam@st-andrews.ac.uk>]

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