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From: Haines Brown (brownh_at_hartford-hwp.com)
Date: 12/04/04

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Date:	Sat,  4 Dec 2004 06:37:50 -0500 (EST)

    On a new installation Debian sarge, I had this as my working
    bootloader stanza:

      title Debian sarge 2.6.8-1-386
        root (hd2,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz ro root=/dev/sdc1 apm=off
        initrd /initrd.img

      (pointing to symlink initrd.img@ -> /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-1-386)

    This worked fine until I did an automatic upgrade of all my installed
    packages, which seems to have included an upgrade of initrd.img. This
    upgrade of packages came with an alert that my bootloader requires
    that I add initrd=/initrd.img to the images=/vmlinuz stanza.

    I found that the upgrade replaced my
    "/boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-1-386" file with a file named
    "/boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-1-386.new". Is this a
    legitimate name?

    More importantly, this new file has zero-length and so naturally
    results in a kernel panic:

      Cannot open root device 'sdc1' or unknown-block(0,0)
      Please append a correct "root=" boot option
      Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

    Does it look like the new initrd.img package for 2.6.8 is broken or
    simply a flawed installation? Should initrd.img-1-386 file not have
    ended with ".new"? What should I do to correct this situation?

    Haines Brown

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