Package: general Severity: important Hello,
Sorry for the general bug, but I can't really say which is the appropriate package in this case. Two days ago after upgrading the lenny 2.6.26-1-686 kernel I didn't shut down the system, I put it in hibernate. The next day, when I powered the computer, it failed to boot right after loading the kernel and checking the BIOS with the message: No setup signature found I thought that, because of the kernel upgrade, I had to run Lilo and the problem would go away. I managed to enter the root file system (on LVM) with the rescue mode of the install CD and ran Lilo. I don't recall having issues at that point (except finding a proper install CD with LVM support). Another failure later I figured I had to regenerate the initrd. I did it and rerun lilo. After reboot I was surprised to see the boot process failing and dropping me in the initrd shell. More investigation and hours later I realised that inside the initrd /dev/root was created with major number 253 while the root LVM device (/dev/mapper/hdapool-rootfilesystem - I know, bad name) had major number 254. I observed that the 253 major was the proper one under the rescue environment, so probably since update-initramfs and lilo were ran from the rescue environment, the wrong major was somehow passed into the initrd environment (not sure if via the root=fd00 boot parameter, but I can check). Note that I didn't have append="root=fd00" in lilo.conf. In the end I modified /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local to try to mount as an ext3 root file system /dev/mapper/hdapool-rootfilesystem, if the default mount command failed. After this change, after updating the initrd image, and a lilo run the system booted. Note that after I did one more update initrd - lilo - reboot cycle the hack in the scripts/local wasn't used anymore, which makes me believe even more that the environment in which the initrd update/lilo run is done impacts the correct creation of /dev/root in the initrd environment. -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
