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

[maximilian attems]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 05:36:04PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> 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.

add an rootdelay=9 (maybe a bit higher for alpha) bootparam,
makes the wait for the rescue console where you can see
which devices are up better to bear.
 
> > 
> > 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.

sure but i was reffering to the initramfs-tools failure,
who is the default tool and known to generaly work on alpha.

thanks for quick reaction