Package: initrd-tools Version: 0.1.82 Severity: normal Tags: patch *** Please type your report below this line *** The ide-scsi module isn't used to access SCSI drives, but mkinitrd generates initrd images that load it at boot time if the host system has a newer kernel and an SCSI (or SATA) root partition.
The module is specifically removed from the list of SCSI modules on older kernels, but this was apparently overlooked when the new kernel support was added. If a system has been configured to use the ide-cd interface to an IDE CD drive, this makes attempts to access the CD drive mysteriously fail (which is how I discovered the bug in the first place). The below patch adds the filtering of the ide-scsi module and the other specifically excluded modules from the older kernel detection code. --- mkinitrd.orig 2005-09-22 23:35:37.000000000 -0400 +++ mkinitrd 2005-09-22 22:21:05.000000000 -0400 @@ -657,7 +657,11 @@ echo $i fi fi - done | tac + done | sed ' + /^ide-scsi$/d + /^usb-storage-/d + /^sbp2_/d + ' | tac echo sd_mod ;; 7[2-9]) -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-amd64-k8 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages initrd-tools depends on: ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2.1 The GNU core utilities ii cpio 2.6-5 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii cramfsprogs 1.1-6 Tools for CramFs (Compressed ROM F ii dash 0.5.2-5 The Debian Almquist Shell ii util-linux 2.12p-4 Miscellaneous system utilities initrd-tools recommends no packages. -- no debconf information