Re: initramfs-tools does not add dm-mod.ko to initrd for kernels 2.6.30-2-686 and kernels 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem

[Jack Schneider <puck@dp-indexing.com>]

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:56:20 -0400
Mitchell Laks <mlaks@post.harvard.edu> wrote:

> On 00:05 Thu 15 Oct     , Mitchell Laks wrote:
> > How can I work around this and what to do? My old kernel 2.6.26
> > works fine.... How to force initrd to load the dm-mod and other
> > device-mapper kernel modules?
> 
> I have added
> dm_mod
> dm_log
> dm_snapshot
> dm_mirror
> to 
> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
> file and then 
> did 
> dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.30-2-686-bigmen
> and it regenerated the initrd.img file
> but then when I selected this kernel in grub2
> it still could  not find the 
> /dev/mapper/debian-root device.
> 
> I was dumped by grub2 into Busybox
> (initramfs)
> and when I ran
> (initramfs) cat /proc/modules 
> 
> sure enough these modules were now in the kernel.
> However when I did ls /dev/mapper all I see is
> /dev/mapper/control
> and I cannot find the
> /dev/mapper/debian-root
> directory
>  
> which exists when I boot into the vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686  kernel.
> 
> So why is grub2 failing to boot in the 2.6.30-2-686 kernel?
> 
> Mitchell
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
Hi, Mitchell
FWIW I have exactly the same problem...  Whew !!!  I didn't cause this
mess....I hope!!!

Thanks more that you know... BTW I haven't fix mine yet... But getting
some help.

Jack


Jack