Problems with new testing kernel package
After installing kernel 2.6.15 on my laptop, my laptop suddenly won't
boot from that kernel. It doesn't even get to init. It seems to not be
able to find the gzip module on startup. I wrote down the errors since
all I get is BusyBox when I boot:
... some hardware detection stuff here ...
Begin: Mounting root file system ...
Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ...
Done.
Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount
Attempting manual resume
Done.
FATAL: Module gzip not found
mount: Mounting /dev/hda3 on /root failed: No such device
After that it can't find /sys or /proc, and in the end says there's no
/sbin/init. And here's the weird thing: I can mount the root filesystem by hand and simply chroot over, and run the scripts in init.d to get things running.
So what's going on? What do I need the gzip module for anyway?
At first I thought it was something wrong with initramfs-tools because if I install/reinstall a previous kernel like 2.6.12, that kernel becomes unbootable as well.
But honestly, I'm not really that savvy about initramfs-tools and initrd-tools, and what the differences are.
The other weird thing is that I don't have this problem at all on my desktop.
I don't know if this is related, but I noticed that there are no more -386 kernels, only -486 in the repository.
Can anyone give me a clue as to what the problem is? I'm holding onto an old kernel for dear life now, but I know I can't do this forever.
Angelo
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