Package: debian-installer Severity: important Tags: d-i Hello,
I noticed that debian-installer leaves a /dev/sdX entry in /etc/fstab inside the newly installed system. This entry corresponds to the medium that Debian was installed from. In my case, I just installed Debian stable on one of our servers (not the machine I am writing from, so please disregard the System Information below). The installer left these lingering entries on fstab: #/dev/sdc1 /media/usb0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 #/dev/sdc2 /media/usb1 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 It was a machine with several hard drives and RAID. Installing a later kernel from backports and rebooting the system made it unable to mount / and /swap, until we finally booted from the old kernel and removed these entries. I've seen various other issues emerge from this issue, one example is here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=65395 It might have an easy workaround, but I believe that the entries that correspond to the installer should be removed from /etc/fstab when debian-installer is still running and right before it boots into the new system. Also, please disregard the system information below, the machine that the issue appeared in is: # uname -a Linux tourbina 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt4-3~bpo70+1 (2015-02-12) x86_64 GNU/Linux # cat /etc/debian_version 7.8 # ls -l /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 1 2012 /bin/sh -> dash # echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8 # echo $LC_CTYPE el_GR.UTF-8 # ps -eo pid,comm |head PID COMMAND 1 init Best regards, Vivia -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (600, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=el_GR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=el_GR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org