[clue-tech] Problems with debian kernel 2.6.15 for 686

[David L. Anselmi]

Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> After installing kernel 2.6.15 on my laptop, my laptop suddenly won't 
> boot from that kernel.  It doesn't even get to init.  It seems to not be 
> able to find the gzip module on startup.  I wrote down the errors since 
> all I get is BusyBox when I boot:

It does boot, but it fails to switch from its initrd to your root fs.  I 
noticed something on a 2.6.15 upgrade that seemed to indicate they've 
changed the initrd stuff (this was on testing and the upgrade went 
smoothly).  So you might look at what initrd packages you have (yaird, 
initramfs-tools, ...) and check the BTS for bugs against it.

> ... some hardware detection stuff here ...
> Begin:  Mounting root filesystem ...
> Begin:  Running /scripts/local-top ...
> Done.
> Begin:  Running /scripts/local-premount
> Attempting manual resume
> Done.
> FATAL:  Module gzip not found
> mount:  Mounting /dev/hda3 on /root failed:  No such device

The /scripts stuff is probably from the initrd.  Is there any reason you 
might need gzip to mount /dev/hda3?  Obviously if you can't mount your 
root partition nothing useful will happen.  Perhaps the initrd doesn't 
support your root fs, or you need to rebuild the initrd (the man pages 
should tell you how).

Assuming you have initramfs-tools you might check:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354334

and add any useful info you can to that.  Or check the resolved bugs, 
maybe your problem has been fixed already.

Dave
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