Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.37
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
mkinitramfs does not copy the /etc/modprobe.d hierarchy to the initial
ramfs. This means that vital module options cannot be passed to the
initramfs system. For my laptop I need the line "options libata atapi_enabled=1"
to be able to use my CD drive.
For other systems (e.g. fibre channel with persistent binding) the
problems will be more severe.
Currently I am using a hook script in /etc/mkinitramfs/hooks to work
around this problem:
<script>
#!/bin/sh
PREREQ=""
prereqs()
{
echo "$PREREQ"
}
case $1 in
prereqs)
prereqs
exit 0
;;
esac
cd /etc/modprobe.d
mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/etc/modprobe.d
find . -depth | cpio -pdmu ${DESTDIR}/etc/modprobe.d 2>/dev/null
</script>
However I believe this should either be done by default in mkinitramfs,
or a script like mine should be part of the mkinitramfs package. I don't
see how doing this could do any harm.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-rc5-mw
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii busybox 1:1.01-3 Tiny utilities for small and embed
ii cpio 2.6-8 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii klibc-utils 1.1.1-2 small statically-linked utilities
ii mklibs-copy 0.1.18 Shared library reduction script
ii udev 0.071-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
initramfs-tools recommends no packages.
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