[Bug 32123] Re: initramfs not generated correctly on dist-upgrade

[Steve Langasek]

Recent releases of Ubuntu have much better initramfs handling; I'm
assuming this bug is fixed.  If you encounter other bugs in current
Ubuntu releases, please continue to file bug reports about them.

** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
    Milestone: ubuntu-6.06 => None

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Title:
  initramfs not generated correctly on dist-upgrade

Status in “initramfs-tools” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  After upgrading to dapper drake (through a dist-upgrade) and
  rebooting, my system did not start up.

  I got the following message:

  
  Decompressing Linux...Done
  Booting the Kernel.
  ALERT! /dev/hda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell.

  
  After this I was presented with the standard busybox shell and after checking the /dev directory of the initial ramfs root I noticed that there was indeed no /dev/hda1 or any /dev/hda for that matter.

  As a bit of personal speculation, I think that it might be a problem
  with the associated initrd not having the ide drivers accessable or
  maybe something about its device nodes. I notice that the latest
  package of the amd64 kernel at this time (2.6.15-15) does not have
  inbuilt ATA drivers like breezys did and I think there might be a
  problem getting them loaded up properly.

  I built my own kernel and initrd image with ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL (IDE),
  Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support (BLK_DEV_IDE) and
  Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support (BLK_DEV_IDEDISK) as inbuilt options
  and it booted fine.

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