[Bug 27172] Re: [patch] install to pcmcia-connected disk can't find root

[Steve Langasek]

If this is a driver only for pcmcia, it is doubtful there's any use in
putting it in the initramfs now (or even shipping the module), as there
is unlikely to be any such hardware that Ubuntu still runs on - or CAN
run on. The last machine I had with pcmcia predated amd64 as an
architecture.

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Title:
  [patch] install to pcmcia-connected disk can't find root

Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I have an external USB drive, connected through a PCMCIA-USB interface. The Dapper Flight-5 install CD installs to the drive without any complains, but the
  system is not bootable. The initrd contains the usb modules, but not the pcmcia modules.

  (I have grub and a copy of kernel and initrd on an internal IDE
  drive.)

  Adding pcmcia and yenta-socket to /etc/initramfs/modules and making a
  new initrd fixes it for me.

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