Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error

2008-07-11 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Jochen, Am 2008-07-09 01:36:10, schrieb Jochen Antesberger: The device naming was changed. Instead of /dev/hda you've got /dev/sda now. To make it boot you'll have to adjust menu.lst to give the kernel the right argument for the boot partition. Also you'll have to change the entries in

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error

2008-07-08 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Anthony, Am 2008-06-30 10:14:02, schrieb Anthony Campbell: I just installed linux-image-2.6.25-2 from Sid. Boot fails with a mwwage: target filesystem doesn't have bootarg This is followed by: /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off I am using Etch with 2.6.18

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error

2008-07-08 Thread Jochen Antesberger
Am Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:00:46 +0200 schrieb Michelle Konzack: Hello Anthony, Am 2008-06-30 10:14:02, schrieb Anthony Campbell: I just installed linux-image-2.6.25-2 from Sid. Boot fails with a mwwage: target filesystem doesn't have bootarg This is followed by: /bin/sh: can't access

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error -SOLVED

2008-07-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:36:33AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 02 Jul 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 02 Jul 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:46:53AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Sorry, I hadn't read the e2label line properly. But I don't think it

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error -SOLVED

2008-07-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 01 Jul 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 10:02:39AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Well, I finally found the answer but it's very odd. I don't think it should work but it does. I put the wrong root entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst. All previous kernels have had /dev/hdb9

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error -SOLVED

2008-07-02 Thread Bob Cox
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 07:51:20 +0100, Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I don't understand label in this context. Where is it set? This was explained by Florian Kulzer earlier in this thread. (It was such a good explanation I kept it for future reference!) On Mon, Jun 30, 2008

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error -SOLVED

2008-07-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:40:12PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: and did you use a vga= parm? And did that work? $ dmesg | grep vga\=791 [0.00] Kernel command line: root=LABEL=sid ro vga=791 $ uname -a Linux think 2.6.25-2-686 #1 SMP Thu Jun 12 16:26:30 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error -SOLVED

2008-07-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Jul 2008, Bob Cox wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 07:51:20 +0100, Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I don't understand label in this context. Where is it set? This was explained by Florian Kulzer earlier in this thread. (It was such a good explanation I kept it for

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error -SOLVED

2008-07-02 Thread Wackojacko
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 02 Jul 2008, Bob Cox wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 07:51:20 +0100, Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I don't understand label in this context. Where is it set? This was explained by Florian Kulzer earlier in this thread. (It was such a good explanation

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error -SOLVED

2008-07-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:46:53AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Sorry, I hadn't read the e2label line properly. But I don't think it would affect the issue I encountered here, which was a change in the actual partition referred to. The label would still be referring to the wrong partition.

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error -SOLVED

2008-07-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:37:19AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:40:12PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: and did you use a vga= parm? And did that work? $ dmesg | grep vga\=791 [0.00] Kernel command line: root=LABEL=sid ro vga=791 $ uname -a Linux

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error -SOLVED

2008-07-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 09:09:00AM +0100, Wackojacko wrote: I think you should be asking yourself how the old kernel boots with hdb9. Grub numbering system starts from 0 so hd(0,0) is hda1 and hda(1,9) is hdb10 etc. Are you sure you don't have another debian/linux install on hdb9 :).

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error -SOLVED

2008-07-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Jul 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 09:09:00AM +0100, Wackojacko wrote: I think you should be asking yourself how the old kernel boots with hdb9. Grub numbering system starts from 0 so hd(0,0) is hda1 and hda(1,9) is hdb10 etc. Are you sure you don't have

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error -SOLVED

2008-07-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Jul 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:46:53AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Sorry, I hadn't read the e2label line properly. But I don't think it would affect the issue I encountered here, which was a change in the actual partition referred to. The label would

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error -SOLVED

2008-07-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Jul 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 02 Jul 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:46:53AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Sorry, I hadn't read the e2label line properly. But I don't think it would affect the issue I encountered here, which was a change in the

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error -SOLVED

2008-07-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Jun 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:28:10PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Uh-oh, speaking of initrds: I forgot that in my previous message; you should probably rebuild it if you change your fstab to labels or UUIDs. How do you do that? I changed to UUID

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error -SOLVED

2008-07-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 30 Jun 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:28:10PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Uh-oh, speaking of initrds: I forgot that in my previous message; you should probably rebuild it if you change your fstab to labels or UUIDs. How do you do that? I

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error -SOLVED

2008-07-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 01 Jul 2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: On 30 Jun 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:28:10PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Uh-oh, speaking of initrds: I forgot that in my previous message; you should probably rebuild it if you change your fstab to

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error -SOLVED

2008-07-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 10:02:39AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Well, I finally found the answer but it's very odd. I don't think it should work but it does. I put the wrong root entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst. All previous kernels have had /dev/hdb9 but this kernel seems to need /dev/hdb10.

Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error

2008-06-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
I just installed linux-image-2.6.25-2 from Sid. Boot fails with a mwwage: target filesystem doesn't have bootarg This is followed by: /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off 2.6.23 still boots normally. Google shows a number of people with similar problems, mainly on Ubuntu. I also

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error

2008-06-30 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:14:02AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I just installed linux-image-2.6.25-2 from Sid. Boot fails with a mwwage: target filesystem doesn't have bootarg This is followed by: /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off Mine works here, but was there any

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error

2008-06-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Jun 2008, Daniel Dalton wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:14:02AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I just installed linux-image-2.6.25-2 from Sid. Boot fails with a mwwage: target filesystem doesn't have bootarg This is followed by: /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error

2008-06-30 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:50:03AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 30 Jun 2008, Daniel Dalton wrote: No error messages. I do get: aetting up linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64 (2.6.25-6) ... Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. should be fine The kernel is correct;

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error

2008-06-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Jun 2008, Daniel Dalton wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:50:03AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 30 Jun 2008, Daniel Dalton wrote: No error messages. I do get: aetting up linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64 (2.6.25-6) ... Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators.

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error

2008-06-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:50:03 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 30 Jun 2008, Daniel Dalton wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:14:02AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I just installed linux-image-2.6.25-2 from Sid. Boot fails with a mwwage: target filesystem doesn't have bootarg

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error

2008-06-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:14:02AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I just installed linux-image-2.6.25-2 from Sid. Boot fails with a mwwage: target filesystem doesn't have bootarg This is followed by: /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off 2.6.23 still boots normally

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error

2008-06-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Jun 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:14:02AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I just installed linux-image-2.6.25-2 from Sid. Boot fails with a mwwage: target filesystem doesn't have bootarg This is followed by: /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error

2008-06-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 13:45:44 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 30 Jun 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:14:02AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I just installed linux-image-2.6.25-2 from Sid. Boot fails with a mwwage: target filesystem doesn't have bootarg

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error

2008-06-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
: target filesystem doesn't have bootarg This is followed by: /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off 2.6.23 still boots normally. Google shows a number of people with similar problems, mainly on Ubuntu. I also found a Debian recommendation to modify

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error

2008-06-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
installed linux-image-2.6.25-2 from Sid. Boot fails with a mwwage: target filesystem doesn't have bootarg This is followed by: /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off 2.6.23 still boots normally. Google shows a number of people with similar

Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error

2008-06-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:28:10PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Uh-oh, speaking of initrds: I forgot that in my previous message; you should probably rebuild it if you change your fstab to labels or UUIDs. How do you do that? I changed to UUID and I got the same message with 2.6.25

Re: Target filesystem doesnt have /sbin/init

2006-08-25 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, I have the same problem using Etch AMD64 (updated with all the latest versions as of this morning, ) , booting with Grub. I have read Bob's mail but I do not understand his solution. Bob, or anyone else, could you explain your solution a bit more? Maybe annotate the excerpt/file below?

Target filesystem doesnt have /sbin/init

2006-08-01 Thread Brent Clark
Done Done Begin running /scripts/init-bottom mount: mounting /root/dev/ on /dev.static/dev/ failed No such file or device mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed no such file or device Target filesystem doesnt have /sbin/init My question is, when on reinstalling debian and installing 2.6.17

Re: Target filesystem doesnt have /sbin/init

2006-08-01 Thread shell
/scripts/local-bottom Done Done Begin running /scripts/init-bottom mount: mounting /root/dev/ on /dev.static/dev/ failed No such file or device mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed no such file or device Target filesystem doesnt have /sbin/init My question is, when on reinstalling debian

Re: Target filesystem doesnt have /sbin/init

2006-08-01 Thread Brent Clark
shell wrote: Can u tell us how ur /boot/grub/menu.lst set? Most importent is boot param, esp boot= root=. Did u regenerted initrd.img? Hi Thanks for replying. I use Lilo and I did not regenerted initrd.img. But if im not mistaken by apt-getting the linux-image package it does it doe

Re: Target filesystem doesnt have /sbin/init

2006-08-01 Thread shell
/scripts/local-bottom Done Done Begin running /scripts/init-bottom mount: mounting /root/dev/ on /dev.static/dev/ failed No such file or device mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed no such file or device Target filesystem doesnt have /sbin/init My question is, when on reinstalling debian

Re: Target filesystem doesnt have /sbin/init

2006-08-01 Thread Brent Clark
shell wrote: Looks like script init in initrd.img can't mount root fs in ur system. The init script will get root= in boot param as root. So check if u get right param when boot up kernel. BTW, If I'm right, local script will wait for 1800s before root device setup, did u really wait so long?

Re: Target filesystem doesnt have /sbin/init

2006-08-01 Thread Bob McGowan
/ failed No such file or device mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed no such file or device Target filesystem doesnt have /sbin/init My question is, when on reinstalling debian and installing 2.6.17 and this happens again. My question is, how or what do I edit to force it to work. If anyone can

Target filesystem

2006-06-09 Thread Brent Clark
Hey all I seem to be experiencing problems booting up (Thank goodness for Knoppix) There are a host of errors, but the end message is: Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off From googling this seems a common problem. Would anyone know how

Re: Target filesystem

2006-06-09 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1149839151 past the epoch, Brent Clark wrote: I seem to be experiencing problems booting up (Thank goodness for Knoppix) There are a host of errors, but the end message is: Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off If you boot

Re: Target filesystem

2006-06-09 Thread Brent Clark
Jon Dowland wrote: At 1149839151 past the epoch, Brent Clark wrote: I seem to be experiencing problems booting up (Thank goodness for Knoppix) There are a host of errors, but the end message is: Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

Re: Target filesystem

2006-06-09 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 09:04:39AM -0400, Brent Clark wrote: Jon Dowland wrote: At 1149839151 past the epoch, Brent Clark wrote: I seem to be experiencing problems booting up (Thank goodness for Knoppix) There are a host of errors, but the end message is: Target filesystem doesn't

Re: Target filesystem

2006-06-09 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-06-09, 13:33:12 (+0100) skrifaði Digby Tarvin: Looks more like a problem with booting to the wrong filesystem. We probably need to know what the first few error messages were rather that the final result. Have you changed to boot config recently? What is the kernel command line? Hi