On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 09:14 +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > Several days ago I complained about being unable to boot from newer > kernels after doing a routine upgrade of Debian Etch (Testing). > > Now, I found document about initrd replacements in Debian: > http://wiki.debian.org/InitrdReplacementOptions
I have revisited the problem I have booting IBM ThinkPad R40e laptop into newer Linux kernels after an upgrade of Debian Etch (Testing) installation. (Reminder: kernel 2.6.8-2-686 works, kernels 2.6.12-1-686,2.6.15-1-686 hang up very short time after detection of /dev/hda and /dev/hdb.) The first thing which I checked was the initrd files in /boot. Turns out that the initrd corresponding to kernel 2.6.15-1 corresponds to the new way (zcat | cpio -i yielded its contents to a directory). After not finding other clues about the hangup, I googled for it and found the following: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-May/msg05626.html which is dated from May 2004 and mentions Fedora Core 2. The author reports that the laptop hangs at the same place my laptop hangs when using new Linux kernels. This message had no followups. I found also the following: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-May/msg08077.html http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-May/msg08197.html which advise that the kernel boot option acpi=off should solve the problem. When setting this kernel boot option in grub.conf, both 2.6.12-1 and 2.6.15-1 boot in my laptop. Somehow 2.6.8-2 did not need this option, neither did 2.6.12-1 before the upgrade, which I did few weeks ago. --- Omer -- Every good master plan involves building a time machine. Moshe Zadka My own blog is at http://tddpirate.livejournal.com/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
