Does not like heterogeneous/old hardware config

[dino99]

Experiencing several booting issues on that system with old hardware: 1 pata hdd + 1 sata hdd + 4 Gb ram

This is with fresh different installations, all i386, ext4:

1) ubuntu : precise/saucy/trusty
 - get bad loading experience (about 50 % of the time) :
   * seems a not optimal initramfs-tools.config : lot of "xz-compressed" errors, "uncompressed data" errors, "cant find a root uuid" or other "rootdelay" whining : so seems to be that hardware too slow and then confuse the loading process.
 - initramfs-tools package on Trusty, even if it has been updated recently, seems to be way older than the Jessy/Sid version.

2) debian Jessy installation
 - the initramfs-tools package is much up-to-date : 0.115 (instead of 0.103 on ubuntu)
 - the loading nightmare here does not exist (that's the most important to me)
 - Jessie load must faster than saucy/trusty : looks like that only the needed modules are loaded (ubuntu load all of them by default)

Looking at (trusty):
- /etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/ : empty folder
- /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools.conf :
    * MODULES=most : maybe "dep" should be used to get a shorter modules list to load
    * COMPCACHE_SIZE="" : zram is now used (if wanted)

So please review that important config for booting (syncing or merging the debian package seems needed asap)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: initramfs-tools 0.103ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.12.0-4.10-generic 3.12.1
Uname: Linux 3.12.0-4-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sat Nov 23 16:12:11 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-25 (29 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20131021.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: initramfs-tools
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[dino99 (9d9)]

way better experience now when booting with 'systemd' on Utopic. Hopes Trusty & Precise to use 'systemd' too.

[dino99 (9d9)]

troubles are gone now