Bug#515676: After "dist-upgrade" from etch to lenny the system can no longer assemble and mount mdadm RAID drives

[martin f krafft]

also sprach S D <sundimi at yahoo.com> [2009.02.17.0935 +0100]:
> Also, it may be important to know that while running etch
> I manually used to run "mkinitrd" to rebuild the boot image every
> time etch kernel was changed (security updates, etc.) This was
> done to add mdadm module to the boot image.

Aha. mkinitrd has been deprecated and etch already used
update-initramfs instead; mdadm only really supports that.

Can you please make a copy of the current
/boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686 and put it somewhere where I can
download it? Uploading to ftp://ftp.madduck.net/incoming/ would
work, too.

Can you then please rebuild the 2.6.26 initramfs like this:

  update-initramfs -ctk 2.6.26-1-686 

You can later use -u instead of -c to update it. Now try a boot.

If that does not work, please also make this
/boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686 available (under a different name).

Cheers,

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