Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2
Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-27 20:57:55 +0200:
> Philipp Überbacher <hollunder@lavabit.com> writes:
>
> > However, after spending many hours on this (thanks phcoder from #grub)
> > it turned out that necessary modules were missing from initramfs.
> > Adding jfs was enough for the system to boot in qemu but not for the
> > real hardware. I've not yet found out what's necessary for that. So,
> > almost solved.. and not sure what to put into the bug report yet.
>
> Since I'm not using JFS and had similar symptoms, it's probably not only
> related to JFS modules. You could say in the bug report that systems
> eventually become unable to boot because of modules missing from
> initramfs. IIRC, there has been an update of mkinitramfs or
> update-initramfs a while ago in Testing --- that was after I found
> myself unable to boot my kernel. I don't know whether this updated is
> related at all, though.
I'm now at the point where it boots in qemu and via usb-boot from my
laptop but not in the real hardware. I need to get a serial-to-usb
adapter to diagnose further, working blind doesn't help a lot...
Regarding modules:
I found that there's a file that overrides the
/etc/initramfs-tools/modules settings, it's called
/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/driver-policy
In my case this file was set to "deps" and did override "most".
I think it's a really bad idea to have multiple config files for the
same thing...
Thanks for your suggestions,
regards,
Philipp
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