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On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 12:20:01PM +0100, Martijn Pieters wrote: > After upgrading from initramfs-tools 0.55b to 0.56 my 2.6.15-1-686-smp system > would no longer boot, and drop me into a busybox shell. Among the boot > messages > busybox had printed a help message for mknod (at a glance identical to the > output of 'busybox mknod' on a working system) suggesting that initramfs-tools > had tried to use mknod in a way not supported by busybox 1.01-4. that would suggest that the minor nr of your root device was misparsed. please send the output of: cat /etc/fstab cat /proc/cmdline > After a boot into 2.6.14-2-686-smp (my backup boot option), a downgrade to > 0.55b and regenerating my /boot/initrd.img-2.6.16-1-smp file the system booted > just fine again. i guess 0.57b won't work for you too? can you try from the busybox shell . conf/initramfs.conf . scripts/functions . scripts/local parse_numeric $ROOT what's the output of: echo $minor echo $major -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
