Bug#582177: initramfs-tools: fails to load ramdisk on boot; ... BOOT DEBUG DATA

[Michael Prokop]

tags 582177 + moreinfo
thanks

* maximilian attems <max at stro.at> [Mit Mai 19, 2010 at 09:49:56 +0200]:
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 02:50:42PM -0400, cropper at acm.org wrote:

[...]

> > _____________________________________________
> > Kernel output (LITERAL DATA, except for "... area below"):

> > [1.185516] rtc_cmos 00:0a: setting system clock to 2010-05-19 18:18:27 UTC (1274293107)
> > [1.185628] Waiting 12sec before mounting root device
> > [1.199432] input: AT translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1
> > [12.992053] List of all partitions:
> > [12.992128] No filesystem could mount root, tried:
> > [12.992221] kernel panic - no syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown wn-block(0,0)
> > [12.992287] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32-3-amd64 #1
> > [12.992340] Call Trace:
> > [12.992397] [<ffffffff812ed349>] ? panic+0x86/0x141
> >     ...             ...                ...
> >     ...             ...                ...
> > [12.992880] [<ffffffff81011ba0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20

> aboves says that linux-2.6 is not getting the initramfs.
> thus indeed blaming GRUB seems the current state of affair.

[...]

> > Questions:
> > 1) Could this be grub?

> > 2) Could "resynchronizing" md0 fix this problem?  I seem to
> > remember doing something like this and the problem went away in
> > March... :-/

> > 3) Any other suggestions?

> adding GRUB maintainers to Cc as this new bug report seems to be a
> recurring trend. #578473 seems to be duplicate of that one.

> GRUB maintainers can you advise?

To the bugreporter: Could you please boot a rescue system / live
system and synchronize your md device(s) and retry? This strongly
looks like an issue with out-of-sync data to me.

To maks + grub maintainers: any objections against reassigning to grub?

regards,
-mika-
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