Upon reading from the source of udev and finding the information in the NEWS file about uuids I thought perhaps that the problem lay from changes in udev being now included in util-linux as was sort of indicated. I hadn't looked into it further myself so what I gave was purely informational and to be used as a pointer as "here's what I had found" to use as you will. It was not any jumped to conclusion and as purely informational if it were wrong it could have quite easily just been ignored.
In my emails I had stated twice and the subject indicates that links in /dev/disk/by-uuid are not created during boot-up presumubly by the initramfs as after a delay and a message that the root system can't be found I am dropped into the initrd shell. So, therein lies the problem and seemingly this problem lays within udev and the version (and it's data) that is put into the created initramfs via the initramfs hooks when run from the initramfs at boot up. using a boot option of linux ... root=UUID=my_uuid ... within my grub.cfg file fails for every debian packages 146 version but works fine with version 141. When dropped to the initrd shell ls /dev/disk gives me no entry at all of /dev/disk/by-uuid when using version 146 udev but for version 141 these entries exists as does the the uuid of my root drive within this directory. So, I suspect that is why my system is unable to boot as this entry doesn't exist. As grub install setup defaults to using uuids this could potentially lead to all systems using grub to fail to boot when used with the current version of udev 146 as 141 works fine. On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 04:32:46AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 13, Chris Donoghue <cdono...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > So that means that vol_id does exist but now it's not in udev but in > > util-linux instead. It's easy to be confused by all that. > Since you appear to be so easily confused then I suggest you stop > jumping to conclusions and answer my questions instead. > vol_id has been replaced by blkid, and you still have not explained what > exactly is wrong with your initramfs. > > -- > ciao, > Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
