after upgrade from gutsy to hardy producing unbootble system because of missing IDE-drivers

[Sven Roederer]

Binary package hint: initramfs-tools

I just updated from gutsy to hardy, after rebooting my system wasn't able to read the root-partition.
This is caused by the changes in the kernel-ide-driver-system. Under gutsy I used the "via82cxxx" and "ide-disk"-driver to accesse the hdd. under hardy "pata-via" and "sd_mod" are needed.

My current setup:
/etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
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MODULES=list

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/etc/initramfs-tools/modules
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ide_disk
via82cxxx
ext3
# for changed kernel-drivers
pata-via
sd_mod
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Maybe ist's not common to to use "MODULES=list" but at least a warning should be displayed to the user to verify the content of "/etc/initramfs-tools/modules". An automatic conversion of the entries would be hint, of course.

Perhaps the file "/etc/modules" needs to be checked / updated also.