Bugzilla – Bug 551713
Broken menu.lst and initrd after updating from rc1 to rc2
Last modified: 2012-08-02 16:00:38 UTC
Created attachment 325015 [details] Modified /lib/mkinitrd/scripts/setup-modules.sh User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.3; Linux) KHTML/4.3.1 (like Gecko) SUSE It's taken a long time to find out, rc2 repository is available in factory-snapshot and not in factory, but today I've updated my Latitude D620 from rc1 to rc2. The kernel update resulted in a menu.lst without entries and a non existing initrd. I've copied the menu.lst.old and changed kernel versions by hand and tried to let run mkinitrd, but it resulted in a: Kernel image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop Initrd image: /boot/initrd-2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop Root device: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSA2M160G2GC_CVPO936400A2160AGN-part3 (/dev/sda3) (mounted on / as ext4) Resume device: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSA2M160G2GC_CVPO936400A2160AGN-part2 (/dev/sda2) Kernel Modules: thermal_sys thermal pata_acpi processor fan intel-agp drm video i2c-algo-bit i915 modeset=1 crc16 jbd2 ext4 Module modeset=1 not found. Yes I'm using KMS for my intel chipset gpu. I've modified /lib/mkinitrd/scripts/setup-modules.sh to get my initrd, but I'm not happy with this workaround. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install rc1 2. use i915.modeset=1 as kernel parameter 3. update to rc2 Actual Results: Broken /boot/grub/menu.lst Missing /boot/initrd-2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop Expected Results: Updated /boot/grub/menu.lst Crated /boot/initrd-2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop
Created attachment 325017 [details] /boot/grub/menu.lst before update
Created attachment 325018 [details] /boot/grub/menu.lst after update
Do you have "i915 modeset=1" in /etc/sysconfig/kernel:INITRD_MODULES? Did you manually add it or did the installer do this?
There's no modeset=1 in INITRD_MODULES: INITRD_MODULES="thermal pata_acpi processor fan intel_agp drm i915" I've added it manually in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader DEFAULT_APPEND="resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSA2M160G2GC_CVPO936400A2160AGN-part2 splash=silent quiet showopts i915.modeset=1" and removed the entry in FAILSAFE_VGA. And no, modeset was not activated by default.
Same problem with opensuse 11.2 final (x86). I didn't wrote "modeset=1" in /boot/grub/menu.lst. There isn't any "modeset" character string in /etc nor /boot files. If I add "i915" manually in /etc/sysconfig/kernel:INITRD_MODULES and then execute "mkinitrd", the bug appears ("Module modeset=1 not found"). Idem if I modify sysconfig files with Yast.
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