On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Bruce Ward wrote: > Greetings. > > More data. I have managed to get an initramfs debug out of the > system and have also provided a debug from a 2.6.26-1-686 kernel > which boots OK. I'm damned if I can see any reason from the debug > for the recent kernel (2.6.26-2-686) to fail to boot! > > Interesting (but possibly not relevant) observations from my playing > around (exploration). Remember there are only a few modules (thermal > ones) loaded when the system drops out. > > 1. Load USB drivers - they find the pendrive, but no entry created in /dev. > 2. Use mknod to create /dev/sda3 for the ext3 partition on pendrive. > sda3 is the only SCSI entry in /dev. > 3. Load ext3 module, and mount the sda3 partition and, behold, there > are entries in /dev/ for sda, sda1, and sda2, as well as sda3. > 4. Load the SATA drivers and suddenly there are sdb entries in /dev > for all partitions on the drive I have failed to boot from.
that points a bit to udev is it running at this stage? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
