On Thu, 06 Apr 2006, Nicola Manini wrote: > > please try out the unstable initramfs-tools version 0.59b > > I did: complete disaster. > > After the udev checks, the scrips come up with a message "Waiting for the > root filesystem" or something of that kind. Except that, afterwards, the > /dev/hd* entries are never generated. Of course, after a few minutes the > scripts drop out to a shell, but further waiting/exiting does not help. I > left the computer up all night, with no success.
sure the rescue shell can't fix itself magically ;) please post from the busybox shell: * the last line of messages you see * cat /proc/cmdline * cat /proc/modules > So, I decided I had better go back to initramfs-tool 0.53c , but that also > wouldn't help! I even forced a purge of both udev and initramfs-tool and > reinstalled them, but the unbootability of kernel 2.6.15 persists! before rebooting check that fstype recognises your root fs: # /usr/lib/klibc/bin/fstype < /dev/hda1 regards -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
