Nick wrote:
Steven Blanchard wrote:
On 5/27/06, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey everyone, I have been having a problem with Etch and was wondering
if anyone else has run into this issue?
After updating the initial install, the boot process hangs at "Begin:
waiting for root file system"
I have repeated the install twice with the same results. Upon searching
for answers the only thing I found is the following:
I edited the file "/etc/kernel-img.conf" to add the line:
ramdisk = /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird
And then regenerated the initrd image.
dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.16-1-amd64-8-smp
And I could boot. It seems this is an error while creating
the initrd image.
As this situation stretches my limited abilities I tried following
these
directions (dubious as they look to me) by using Knoppix but I was
unsuccessful.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
Thanks
Nick
Does your computer have SATA? I ran into similar problems at work
with a machine. The problem was that under sarge's kernel the SATA
drive showed up as regular IDE (hda). With the newer kernel in etch,
SATA shows up as a scsi device (sda). To boot, I had to update the
fstab and grub.conf by hand.
Cheers,
~Steven
I have found a workaround for this issue however it is not a fix. If
you get: "ALERT! /dev/hda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell." after
upgrading Etch you can do the following.
1. Wait for busybox shell
2. modprobe ide-disk
3. ctrl-d
Now I just need to figure out how to avoid busybox to begin with...
Nick
On a roll... After updating evms and udev the machine starts without
ending up at busybox, but I do receive the following in dmesg:
device-mapper: dm-linear: Device lookup failed
device-mapper: error adding target to table
I do not know if it was there prior to the upgrade.
Hope this helps.
Nick
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