[Yaird-devel] Bug#412799: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 does not boot

[Svante Signell]

On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 20:30 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:26:40PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
..
> Ok.  First, would it be possible for you to reproduce /all/ the kernel
> output prior to this boot failure (or at least, all that's visible on the
> screen at the point of the hang)?  The output you've quoted is much less
> than a screenful; is that really all that was output by the kernel prior to
> the hang?
... lost screen output ...
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards
isapnp: No plug and play cards found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq=4) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq=4) is a 16550A
00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq=4) is a 16550A
00:09: ttyS1 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq=4) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
PNP: PS/2 Controllaer [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f03:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x060,0x064 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x060,0x064 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
Starting balanced_irq
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
ACPI (supports S0 S1 S5)
Time tsc clocksource has been installed.
Freeing unised kernel memory: 196k freed
Failed to execute /init
Kernel panic - not synching: No init found. Try passing init= option to
kernel.

I assume the interesting output has scrolled away already (asynchronous
output).
Attached is a diff beteewn dmesg for 2.6.18-3-686 produced with yaird
and 2.6.18-4-686 produced with mkinitramfs-kpkg

> Second, if you can email me the broken initramfs image, I can put it up on a
> webserver for others to examine, in addition to poking at it myself. 
> (Emailing to the BTS seems like a bad idea, given that it's a 1MB+ file.)

Done in a separate mail!

> Thanks,
-- 
Svante Signell <svante.signell at telia.com>
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