Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: initramfs-tools
I use an external hdd for testing Feisty. My notebook has only builtin
USB1.1, so I decided to use a FireWire PCcard. The desktop CD (herd4)
has no problems to detect the FireWire card and the external disk.
Installation worked without problems.
Because my BIOS doesn't know a thing about FireWire I had to do the following:
To boot Feisty on the external drive I had to copy Feisty's /boot/* over to my
internal hdd (containing my Edgy system) and tweak my grub configuration.
Everything worked up to the point where the initrd image tried to mount the
Feisty root partition (on the FireWire disk). This failed because the initrd
image does not contain the yenta_socket module for 32 bit PCcard support.
My workaround: build a new initrd image with the line "yenta_socket"
added to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules. Now I can boot Feisty flawlessly.
My suggestion: as you support plain old PCMCIA with the current initrd
image, you should support 32 bit PC cards, too!
ProblemType: Bug
Date: Tue Feb 20 22:07:35 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux pollux 2.6.20-8-generic #2 SMP Tue Feb 13 05:18:42 UTC 2007 i686
GNU/Linux
** Affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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out-of-the-box initrd images do not include 32bit pccard support
https://launchpad.net/bugs/86577
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