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bug #19070: Linux kernel 2.6.10 (Ubuntu 6.10) can't grab boot parameters

Submitter:  Ludolpif <ludolpif>
Submitted:  Fri 16 Feb 2007 08:30:03 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Booting Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Software Error
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name:  Ludolpif
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  None
Release:  0.97-11-ubuntu14 Reproducibility:  Every Time
Planned Release:  None

Sat 15 Dec 2007 09:38:21 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Unfortunately we do not currently have the resources to track down this kind of requests. Please reopen this bug if you can provide a patch, or if you're willing to work on this issue.

Thanks

Robert Millan <robertmh>
Group administrator
Fri 16 Feb 2007 08:30:03 PM UTC, original submission:  

Hello, I'm a French user of Ubuntu 6.10 (edgy).
First, sorry for my approximative English.

A short description / interpretation of the bug :
My linux kernel 2.6.10 (default kernel of Ubuntu 6.10) stop itself during boot on the following message :
Waiting for root file system...
3 min later, i've got a BusyBox with a minimalist shell (the rescue shell of me init ram-drive), the root partition isn't mounted...
I use GRUB v 0.97-11-ubuntu14 (Ubuntu deb package)
 
Hardware used when this bug occurs :
Shuttle SD32G2
Intel Core Duo, SATA 2 250 GiB hdd...

Software installed when this bug occurs :
A freshly installed Ubuntu 6.10 Offical release.

Procedure that makes the bug appears :
My Shuttle initially have an empty hdd (no Windows, no existing partition...).
I put the live/install CD of the official release of Ubuntu 6.10. The CD boots well. I follow normal installation procedure (in graphics mode, with ubiquity), I create an msdos type of partition table, and an approx 16GiB ext3 primary partition (denoted /dev/sda1, this is my root partition), next an extended partition filling all the rest of my 250 GB hdd. In this extended partition, I make a swap partition (2 GiB) at the beginning of the free space (sda5). I make an another partition (16 GiB, reiserfs, sda6) for some data.
Ubiquity install my Ubuntu in sda1, setting up sda5 for swap, and mount sda6 in /media/sda6...
No errors during install.
At the end, I reboot, GRUB say (approxiamatively) "Press ESC to see the menu", and next it load automatically the Ubuntu's default kernel.
The system hangs just after the following message :
"Waiting for root file system..."
The computer isn't frozzen, but the kernel waits...3 minutes ! And next this lap of time, the initrd launch a BusyBox minimalist shell.
ls -al /root
shows that this is an emply folder.
mount
show that only /proc, /sys and /dev are mounted...

and mainly :
cat /proc/cmdline

shows that there isn't any parameter !!

At boot time, if I e lines in the GRUB's boot menu, I see things like :
title           Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17-11-generic
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-11-generic root=/dev/hda2 ro quiet splash
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-11-generic
savedefault
boot

and, there at least the root= parameter for the kernel.

If I try cat /proc/cmdline on other computer that use Ubuntu without any problem, I can see all parameters passed by GRUB.

To try to boot my machine, I have installed Lilo (and cat /proc/cmdline return parameters correctly), and the computer works with a minor problem : the SATA module ata_piix isn't automatically loaded, but with append="break" in lilo.conf, I have the Busybox shel, I type modprobe ata_piix and next <ctrl+D> and the computer boot well.

Ludolpif <ludolpif>

 

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