On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 02:03:23PM +0200, Philipp Sternberg wrote: > > Hi folks, > > i ran into this after trying to install a 2.6.25.10-vanilla using make-kpkg. > When I tried to boot the new kernel, > the system hung. It said /scripts/init-premount/udev : 17 : udevd : not > found. Well the reason for that was very > simple: udevd was not copied into the kernel image: > > Allright here is how one might reprduce it (at least that was how I ran into > it): > 1. unpack the kernel sources and configure the kernel. > --> After unpacking I did > cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.25.10 > zcat /proc/config.gz > .config > make oldeconfig > make menuconfig > 2. Create the kernelimage > make-kpkg clean && make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-custom > --rootcmd fakeroot \ > kernel_image kernel_headers > 3. Install the Kernel > dpkg -i > /usr/src/linux-image-2.6.25.10-customy_2.6.25.10-customy-10.00.Custom_i386.deb > --> dpkg told me that the ramdisk was created > 4.If I reboot now the above described problem happens. > 5. To check if udevd was included in the image i unpacked the kernelimage > into a directory and tried to find the > udevd binary: > mkdir /home/philipp/Desktop/initrd > cd /home/philipp/Desktop/initrd > zcat /boot/initrd.img-2.6.25.10-customy | cpio -i > find -name '*udev*' > --> which gave me just > ./scripts/init-premount/udev > ./scripts/init-bottom/udev > > Unfortunately i was not able to see what really happend during the creation > of the image so i ran: > update-initramfs -utv > which revealed that all the hook scripts were skipped with the message > /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/whatever ignored: not alphanumeric or > '_' file > > Thus the udev hook script was skipped as well and no udevd-binary was copied. > > I worked around this by temporarily changing line 77 of > /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/functions > from > *[![:alnum:]_]* > to ___ > very very ugly, but however the line, which is in a section which figures out > which scripts to exclude from > participation in the ramdisk-image creation process, more or less tells to > exclude everything as far as i > interpreted the > glob expression (this *[![:alnum:]_]* string) correctly. Why is that so? > I'd guess it is a bug. Anyhow even if it isn't I would expect the freshly > installed initramfs-tools scripts to > create a consistent ramdisk image. > > Well that's it basically > > Regards > > Phil > root=/dev/hda1 ro
please sendin the output of sh -x mkinitramfs -o /tmp/o thanks -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
