severity 582002 important stop On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:39:29AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > > I run Debian testing (Squeeze) on the s390 architecture. I just performed > an "aptitude update" and "aptitude full-upgrade" sequence, and among the > updates was a new version of initramfs-tools: 0.94.4. (I noticed that > Debian bug report 576603 was opened with a severity of "serious" with the > apparent goal of keeping the package from migrating from Sid to Squeeze, > and the bug has not been marked as resolved, nevertheless the package > did migrate to Squeeze within the past few days.) > > The new package completely broke my system's ability to boot. Allow me > to explain the boot mechanism that the old version successfully accomplished, > and then explain how the new version fails. I have four different disks, > one partition each, that are mounted on four different mount points, > as follows: > > Device Mount Point > 0200 / > 0201 /boot > 0202 /home > 0203 swap > > I have a file called /etc/modprobe.d/dasd which contains the following > statement: > > options dasd_mod dasd=0.0.0200(diag),0.0.0201,0.0.0202-0.0.0203(diag)
you need give it a .conf ending then it ends up in initramfs. soon modprobe will not even look at your file without that ending. this special needs to be reverted due to stable -> testing upgrade, but will reappear soon. > This accomplishes two things: (1) it guarantees the correspondence of > Linux devices names to s390 device numbers as follows: > > Device > > 0200 /dev/dasda > 0201 /dev/dasdb > 0202 /dev/dasdc > 0203 /dev/dasdd > > and (2) it specifies the device driver used for each disk as follows: iam not familiar where this files comes from, so please feel free to reassign to whomever who created it. and/or maybe to release notes. thanks ps thanks for reminding me of 576603, will nuke that and get soonest latest git out. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org