On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, C. Dominik Bódi wrote: > Yes, booting that kernel gets me into the rescue shell. All /dev/hda? > partitions that should exist do so, as well. > > Here's a list of modules that are loaded: > ide_disk > atiixp <snipp modules list>
so udev is doing the job, but i don't see any fs in your aboves list. > I am using grub, with an extra partition /dev/hda7 set up as /boot. > > /proc/cmdline is > root=/dev/hda8 ro lapic looks sane > I did install debian again, once I had upgraded it to unstable, the same bug > happened. I did keep the kernel from testing this time (see original report > for version), which boots without having this problem. > > I tried something in the rescue shell: I mounted /dev/hda8 to /root manually > using the following command: > mount -t ext3 /dev/hda8 /root > > Then I exited the rescue shell and the system did boot normally. what does simply exiting the shell do? can you please post all the initramfs-tools lines you see when you get dropped into the shell. regards -- maks
