Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.98.8
Severity: normal
I have a kernel booting problem with kernels above 2.6.37 on Debian
Squeeze, on HP G6 hardware, which have the harddisk controller:
HP Smart Array P410i Controller / Smart Array G6 controllers
This problem is (of cause) related to the introduction of the driver
HPSA, which takes over from the driver CCISS (the overlapping PCI IDs
were removed in commit 6fa977520871 see below).
This driver transition causes the device names to change
from /dev/cciss/c0d0p1
to /dev/sda1.
Thus, it would be really nice if UUID / LABEL / udev worked, as it
would make it possible to boot kernels above and below 2.6.37.
== Here comes the BUG and work-around ==
The BUG is that, if I compile the kernel and include the CCISS driver
(even-though it will not be used), then initramfs will drop me into a
shell, complaining that it cannot find /dev/disk/by-uuid/...
The work-around is, either
1) to avoid using initrd images, or
2) don't compile the kernel with the CCISS driver.
== Maintainers tasks ==
I suspect the bug lies in initramfs-tools, or the udev version used by
initramfs-tools.
Could the maintainers of initramfs-tools and udev, please tell me
something like its fixed in version XXX, and the Debian maintainers
just need to compile initramfs-tools with this version to fix the
issue? ;-)
commit 6fa977520871b1fc0be64247abad02b678c13fda
Author: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Date: Thu Oct 28 06:33:27 2010 -0600
cciss: remove overlapping PCI IDs
This patch removes the controller overlap between cciss and hpsa. It was
decided that no overlap should exist. All new controllers will use the hpsa
SCSI based driver.
Rant:
This is the fourth time I submit this bug via the "reportbug" tool.
This time I hope that the Debian mail-admins will not falsely
categorize my mail as malware via clamav.
-- Package-specific info:
-- initramfs sizes
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.4M Jun 2 2010 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.4M May 17 2010 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7.4M Jun 2 2010 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7.3M Jun 2 2010 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-amd64.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.0M Feb 22 17:30 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 95M Aug 4 2010 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92M Dec 18 22:13 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-ipt-seqlocks+
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92M Dec 15 16:28 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-net-next-03166-g001389b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11M Aug 23 2010 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35.3-comx01+
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11M Aug 27 2010 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35.4-comx01+
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11M Oct 8 11:56 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35.7-comx01+
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11M Nov 10 15:06 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35.8-comx01+
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11M Feb 22 17:32 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35.8-comx02+
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11M Dec 21 16:27 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.36.2-comx02-ipt-seqlocks+
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26M Mar 2 17:30 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-rc5-02558-g07df529
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23M Mar 2 14:15 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-rc5-02558-g07df529-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23M Mar 2 14:18 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-rc5-02558-g07df529-test
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25M Mar 7 11:58 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-rc7-comx-next-00163-gfb62c00
-- /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.38-rc7-comx-next-00163-gfb62c00 root=UUID=7afb0175-deb2-4dc4-9a48-bf075cb14ca2 ro quiet
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-rc7-comx-next-00163-gfb62c00 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii cpio 2.11-4 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii findutils 4.4.2-1+b1 utilities for finding files--find,
ii klibc-utils 1.5.20-1 small utilities built with klibc f
ii module-init-tools 3.12-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii udev 164-3 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
Versions of packages initramfs-tools recommends:
ii busybox 1:1.17.1-8 Tiny utilities for small and embed
Versions of packages initramfs-tools suggests:
ii bash-completion 1:1.2-3 programmable completion for the ba
-- no debconf information
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On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 04:53:14PM +0100, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> Package: initramfs-tools
> Version: 0.98.8
> Severity: normal
I'm not sure this is really the fault of initramfs-tools.
We need to update device names as for the libata transition, and I
have prepared changes to linux-base that will do this.
> I have a kernel booting problem with kernels above 2.6.37 on Debian
> Squeeze, on HP G6 hardware, which have the harddisk controller:
>
> HP Smart Array P410i Controller / Smart Array G6 controllers
>
> This problem is (of cause) related to the introduction of the driver
> HPSA, which takes over from the driver CCISS (the overlapping PCI IDs
> were removed in commit 6fa977520871 see below).
>
> This driver transition causes the device names to change
> from /dev/cciss/c0d0p1
> to /dev/sda1.
>
> Thus, it would be really nice if UUID / LABEL / udev worked, as it
> would make it possible to boot kernels above and below 2.6.37.
>
> == Here comes the BUG and work-around ==
>
> The BUG is that, if I compile the kernel and include the CCISS driver
> (even-though it will not be used), then initramfs will drop me into a
> shell, complaining that it cannot find /dev/disk/by-uuid/...
[...]
Are you really saying that:
1. If only hpsa is included, then the /dev/disk/by-uuid link is
created properly.
2. If both hpsa and cciss are included then the link is not created
properly.
Ben.
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On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 16:33 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> I'm not sure this is really the fault of initramfs-tools.
I'll post some more output/info shortly, which hopefully will help
tracking down the issue.
> We need to update device names as for the libata transition, and I
> have prepared changes to linux-base that will do this.
[...]
> > == Here comes the BUG and work-around ==
> >
> > The BUG is that, if I compile the kernel and include the CCISS driver
> > (even-though it will not be used), then initramfs will drop me into a
> > shell, complaining that it cannot find /dev/disk/by-uuid/...
> [...]
>
> Are you really saying that:
>
> 1. If only hpsa is included, then the /dev/disk/by-uuid link is
> created properly.
> 2. If both hpsa and cciss are included then the link is not created
> properly.
Correct, that is what I'm saying!
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Bug#617256: initramfs-tools: HP G6 hardware kernel boot issue > 2.6.37 cciss/hpsa
