Bug#790385: initramfs-tools: breaks building initramfs for zfs over (mirrored) LUKS - "can't find root device"

From	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#790385: initramfs-tools: breaks building initramfs for zfs over (mirrored) LUKS - "can't find root device"
Date	2015-06-28 23:20 +0200
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On Sun, 2015-06-28 at 20:58 +0200, crikey@vivaldi.net wrote:
> Package: initramfs-tools
> Version: 0.120
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> My first bug report - hope it's comprehensible / useful.
> 
> Trying to convert my workstation to ZFS; (kind of) following John
> Goerzen's recipe. At the critical point, creating the initramfs, it
> bombs out with the messages attached at the end. Have been at this 
> for
> a week now, tweaking what I can - but with no success. Please feel
> free to ask for more or whatever info might be necessary. Thanks.
[...]

So far as I know, booting from zfs has never been supported in
initramfs-tools.  It would in any case require some support from one of
the zfs packages.

Ben.

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