Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.91e Severity: important Hi, I encountered the following boot failure on my alpha machine. When linux-image-2.6.22-3-alpha-generic came into testing, my system failed to boot with the initrd.img generated by initramfs-tools but it still booted with the initrd.img generated by yaird so I suspect this is a bug of initramfs-tools.
However, linux-image-2.6.24-alpha-generic failed to boot with initrd.img generated both initramfs-tools and yaird. The messages when it failed to boot were as follows: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0 TCP sic registered NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 Freeing unused kernel memory: 288k freed Loading, please wait... Input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0 and it stopped there. The outputs of ls -l /boot/initrd.img-2.6.2* -rw------- 1 root root 1402449 2007-09-10 07:30 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-2-alpha-generic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7670981 2008-04-07 13:49 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-alpha-generic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7767549 2008-02-19 09:35 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-alpha-generic.bak -rw------- 1 root root 1358737 2008-02-19 13:05 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-alpha-generic.yaird -rw------- 1 root root 1333218 2008-04-01 10:48 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-alpha-generic initrd.img-2.6.22-3-alpha-generic.yaird is what I backed up for later use if necessary. initrd.img-2.6.22-3-alpha-generic is what initramfs-tools geneted this morning. I booted with 2.6.22-2 and generated initrd.img with a command dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.22-3-alpha-generic after setting up /etc/kernel-img.conf for initramfs-tools. Regards. -- Package-specific info: -- /proc/cmdline ro root=/dev/sda1 -- /proc/filesystems ext2 cramfs -- lsmod Module Size Used by tcp_diag 2264 0 inet_diag 15064 1 tcp_diag nf_conntrack_ipv4 24872 7 xt_state 3248 7 nf_conntrack 84600 2 nf_conntrack_ipv4,xt_state nfnetlink 8376 2 nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack xt_tcpudp 4312 9 iptable_filter 3780 1 ip_tables 15720 1 iptable_filter x_tables 19920 3 xt_state,xt_tcpudp,ip_tables ipv6 339256 30 pcspkr 4104 0 ide_cd 51032 0 cdrom 45984 1 ide_cd ata_generic 9164 0 libata 153080 1 ata_generic generic 6580 0 [permanent] tsdev 10876 0 tulip 70184 0 psmouse 54560 0 bitrev 2368 1 tulip cmd64x 13448 0 [permanent] serio_raw 8764 0 ide_core 151240 3 ide_cd,generic,cmd64x sd_mod 35688 5 sym53c8xx 95328 3 scsi_transport_spi 33673 1 sym53c8xx scsi_mod 189352 4 libata,sd_mod,sym53c8xx,scsi_transport_spi evdev 12816 0 fbcon 50456 0 tileblit 3616 1 fbcon crc32 4800 2 tulip,fbcon font 8904 1 fbcon bitblit 7584 1 fbcon fbcon_rotate 3952 1 bitblit fbcon_cw 7896 1 fbcon_rotate fbcon_ud 7960 1 fbcon_rotate fbcon_ccw 7960 1 fbcon_rotate softcursor 2920 4 bitblit,fbcon_cw,fbcon_ud,fbcon_ccw -- /etc/kernel-img.conf # Do not create symbolic links in / do_symlinks = Yes #ramdisk = mkinitrd.yaird -- /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf MODULES=most BUSYBOX=y KEYMAP=n BOOT=local DEVICE=eth0 NFSROOT=auto -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: alpha Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-alpha-generic Locale: LANG=ja_JP.EUC-JP, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.EUC-JP (charmap=EUC-JP) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on: ii cpio 2.9-12 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii findutils 4.2.33-1 utilities for finding files--find, ii klibc-utils 1.5.7-4 small statically-linked utilities ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre11-4 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii udev 0.114-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo Versions of packages initramfs-tools recommends: ii busybox 1:1.1.3-5 Tiny utilities for small and embed -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]