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** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Does not like heterogeneous/old hardware config

Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  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)

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