Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686
I have been attempting to install edgy on my older dual-proc PIII 800. The 2.6
kernel fails to boot with an overflow in SCM_MSG_LOOP, so I decided to install
2.4.27.
I used ctrl-alt-f2 to get to busybox, waited until the Edgy installer asked me
what "additional" packages that I wanted, and then chrooted to /target. I then
apt-get install'd the 2.4.27-2-686 package.
The post-install script doesn't create the initial RAM disk correctly. Rather
than putting the initial ram disk correctly in /boot, it instead creates no
initial RAM disk anywhere, and creates a dangling /initrd.img link to
/bootinitrd.img-2.4.27-2-686. I suspect someone forgot a forward slash in
there when they wrote the script. The result is that when attempting to boot,
there is no initial RAM disk, and then the kernel will panic with the error
message "cannot mount root fs UUID=<garbage text>, please append a correct
entry to root=". Attempting to change the initial RAM disk manually in
menu.lst isn't going to work, because there IS no initial RAM disk, at least as
far as I can tell.
** Affects: kernel-image-2.4.27-i386 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Kernel Panic: unable to mount root fs
https://launchpad.net/bugs/74277
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