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On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Fabien Fivaz wrote: > Package: initramfs-tools > Version: 0.59b > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks the whole system nack it works on many boxes out there according to popcon stats. also next time when you submit a bug report, please paste the error message right away. > Today, I updated my system. It updated two things important I think : > linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 and initramfs-tools. Strangely, linux-image was > already the same version, so apt just updated a up-to-date package. > > But after rebooting (as it asked for during the install process), I > received the following message : "Begin : Waiting for root file > system..." and waiting for about 4 minutes, the Busybox shell was shown. did you check in the rescue shell: a) if your root device existed b) if your relevant modules where loaded > After some research, it turned out that the initrd image file had a > problem. I tred to fix it creating a new initrd image with mkinitramfs > -k 2.6.15-1-686 -u -t, but it showed the same problem at boot up. Then I > used mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd-img-2.6.15-1-686 2.6.15-1-686 and it > worked well on reboot. please use update-initramfs the command line syntax you are showing above doesn't work for mkinitramfs > Strange, isn't it ? if not working i need the output of the following commands cat /proc/cmdline lsmod > -- System Information: > Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on: > ii busybox 1:1.01-4 Tiny utilities for small and > embed > ii cpio 2.6-11 GNU cpio -- a program to manage > ar > ii klibc-utils 1.2.4-1 small statically-linked > utilities > ii module-init-tools 3.2.2-2 tools for managing Linux kernel > mo > ii udev 0.085-1 /dev/ and hotplug management > daemo your system is not up2date you need to upgrade to latest udev! please retest then with update-initramfs. -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
