I don't think this issue is limited to network devices. I have a machine with onboard SCSI, SATA and RAID on a separate card. Even though the onboard SCSI and SATA have no drives connected the machine fails to boot and drops me at a busybox shell prompt inside the initrd:
Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... /scripts/local-top/lvm: 36: vgchange: not found Done. /init: 1: cannot open /dev/root: No such device or address Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ... Done. Usage: modprobe [-v] [-V] [-C config-file] [-n] [-i] [-q] [-b] [-o <modname>] <modname> [parameters...] modprobe -r [-n] [-i] [-v] <modulename> ... modprobe -l -t <dirname> [ -a <modulename> ...] mount: Cannot read /etc/fstab: No such file or directory Begin: Running /scripts/log-bottom ... Done. Done. Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... mount: Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file or directory Done. mount: Mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory mount: Mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init I also get the network interface reordering problem described in this bug report on the machine. I've worked around the problem for now by disabling the unused facilities on the motherboard. The machine is running sarge/amd64 with 2.6.15 kernel and associated dependencies from backports.org: ii linux-image-2.6.15-1-amd64-k8-smp 2.6.15-2bpo1 Linux kernel 2.6.15 image on AMD64 K8 SMP machines ii udev 0.081-0bpo1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemon -- Mike Crowe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
