Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.116 Hello,
running Debian with the root filesystem on a USB mass storage device (such as a USB harddisk) requires that the driver modules for the USB host controllers of the system are available in the initramfs. If they are missing, the root filesystem cannot be mounted, which currently happens on a number of armhf systems. On i386/amd64, the OHCI/EHCI host controllers are PCI devices which are supported by the ohci-pci and ehci-pci modules. On many armhf systems the USB host controllers are OHCI/EHCI-compatible, but implemented as a platform device, so they are not supported by ohci-pci and ehci-pci. Instead these systems need the following platform device driver modules: - ohci-platform - ehci-platform and in the case of armhf/sunxi-based systems an additional USB phy driver module: - phy-sun4i-usb These modules are not included in the initramfs built by initramfs-tools (even if MODULES=most is set in initramfs.conf), which makes it impossible to boot with the rootfs on a USB disk on such systems. Please always include ohci-platform, ehci-platform and phy-sun4i-usb into the initramfs if they are provided by the kernel for which the initramfs is built. Regards, Karsten -- Gem. Par. 28 Abs. 4 Bundesdatenschutzgesetz widerspreche ich der Nutzung sowie der Weitergabe meiner personenbezogenen Daten für Zwecke der Werbung sowie der Markt- oder Meinungsforschung. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
