On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:47:49AM +0200, Michael Lange wrote:
> Package: initramfs-tools
> Version: 0.92o
> Severity: important
> 
> After upgrading from etch to lenny the new kernel would not boot, but stop 
> with a message "Waiting for 
> root file system". The root file system is on a luks partiton as 
> /dev/mapper/root. As suggested in the 
> debian docs I added a file system label to /etc/fstab to avoid possible 
> /dev/hda - /dev/sda confusions 
> with a new kernel before upgrading, so the line for the root partition in 
> /etc/fstab looked like:
> 
> LABEL=CRYPTOROOT     /          ext3        defaults,errors=remount-ro     0  
>  1
> 
> When I opened the initrd.img with gzip and cpio I found the 
> conf/conf.d/cryptroot was missing; when I 
> added it manually and re-packaged the initrd.img the system would boot up 
> normally.
> On a web search I found the discussion about bug #507721 and although I was 
> not able to fully understand 
> the technical details I thought it resembled my problems a lot. I then just 
> tried to replace the 
> LABEL=CRYPTROOT in /etc/fstab with /dev/mapper/root and ran update-initramfs 
> again which then resulted 
> in a correct initrd.img, so it looks like initramfs-tools does not handle 
> file system labels correctly.

did you try to pass a "rootdelay=12" bootparam?



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