mptscsih not loaded by initramfs

[Jesper Krogh]

The 2.6.12-8-amd64-k8-smp kernel fails to boot on a system using the
[ 102.529952] mptbase: Initiating ioc0 bringup
[ 102.648094] ioc0: 53C1030: Capabilities={Initiator}
[ 102.929523] Fusion MPT SCSI Host driver 3.01.20
[ 102.929608] scsi0 : ioc0: LSI53C1030, FwRev=01032300h, Ports=1, MaxQ=222, IRQ=27
[ 102.930764] Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAT3073NC Rev: 0104
[ 102.930771] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
[ 102.935388] Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAT3073NC Rev: 0104
[ 102.935393] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
[ 103.936950] Vendor: SDR Model: GEM318P Rev: 1
[ 103.936956] Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02
[ 105.938125] Capability LSM initialized

"sda1" as boot device.

If i manually inserts

mptscsih

in /etc/mkinitramfs/modules it solves the problem.

The problem didn't exist in -3

See discussion
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.devel/10878

[Jeff Bailey (jbailey)]

Fixed in initramfs-tools 0.26 (although you really want 0.27 instead)

Tks,
Jeff Bailey