[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#585677: linux-image-2.6.32-5-486: impossible to mount partitions (except /)

[maximilian attems]

reassign 585677 initscripts
stop

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 09:57:21PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 22:49 +0200, Stéphane Blondon wrote:
> > 2010/6/20 Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>:
> > > Please try booting with 'break=premount' added to the kernel parameters.
> > > When the boot process stops you should get an '(initramfs)' prompt.  At
> > > the prompt, please run 'blkid' and send the output.  Feel free to
> > > abbreviate the UUIDs if you copy the output by hand.
> > >
> > 
> > This is what I get (the longest UUID are abbreviated (those for swap and ext3)):
> > 
> > (initramfs) blkid
> > /dev/sda1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" UUID="6466-FB4C TYPE="vfat"
> > /dev/sda3: UUID="1E21-1DFD" TYPE="vfat"
> > /dev/sda5: LABEL="XP" UUID="8444-ACD1" TYPE="vfat"
> > /dev/sda6: UUID="0bd127f7-...89d0" TYPE="swap"
> > /dev/sda7: UUID="9e7a1cee-...806a" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
> > /dev/sdb5: UUID="58027110-...91d1" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
> > /dev/sdb6: UUID="8a64c937-...52db" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
> > /dev/sdb7: UUID="47f58f90-...64e5" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
> > (initramfs)
> 
> Given that the kernel command-line has
> 'root=UUID=9e7a1cee-d7c8-4244-95fe-757af64d806a', and that that
> filesystem is accessible, I think this must be some strange bug in the
> initramfs scripts and not the kernel.  I'll reassign it accordingly.
> 
> Ben.

given that the root is mounted correctly and the initramfs business
is not to mount cat and dogs of /etc/fstsab, reassigning:

dpkg -S /etc/init.d/mountall.sh
initscripts

but it might very well be a util-linux bug.