[Yaird-devel] Bug#457177: Bug#457177: yaird is necessary for alpha yet

[Atsuhito Kohda]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:59:58 +0200, maximilian attems wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 02:26:00PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> > I encountered a problem recently on my alpha machine 
> > running Debian testing.
> > 
> > linux-image-2.6.22-3-alpha-generic was failed to boot
> > if I used initramfs-tools to generate initrd.img but
> > it booted successfully with initrd.img generated by yaird.
> 
> please report the boot failure against initramfs-tools.
> I'd need to know more like the error message you saw
> and the content of the working initramfs versus non working.

Okay, but the alpha is so critical for me, i.e. it works 
as mail server and web server so it is rather difficult to debug.
When I reboot it, I'll test an initrd.img by initramfs-tools
and write down the error messages as far as I can.

> > Unfortunately linux-image-2.6.24-1-alpha-generic failed
> > to boot with both initramfs-tools and yaird.
> 
> yep the error your posted looks like a kernel bug.

Perhaps so.

> > Anyway I believe yaird is necessary for, at least, alpha
> > in lenny.  I have experienced boot failure many times
> > with alpha and it is very good to have two options to
> > generate initrd.img.
> 
> it seems to make people to lazy to report.
> 2.6.22 is 1/2 a year ago.

I remembered 2.6.24 came down into testing only about 
a week ago.  I don't think I'm lazy here.

Regards,       	     	       2008-4-2(Wed)

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