Package: linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 Version: 2.6.18-7 Severity: grave
My hardware constallation: It is a little hard to describe. I had done a fresh network-installation on a rather old machine. The hardware is a little "nonstandard", so I think I have to describe it. The greatest part of the system is installed on a 30 GB harddisk, which is not usable with my BIOS. But I this computer, there is a IDE RAID-controller, which makes the disk available. The root file system, including /boot is installed on a second hard disc, which is accessible and bootable by the BIOS. I could not do a totally new partition of the disk, because it contains a lot of data of a friend. ;-) This system disk is /dev/hda, the data disk is /dev/hde. This are my partitions and mountpoints: /dev/hda1 Swap /dev/hda2 (W95 extended) /dev/hda3 on / (ext3, with bootable-flag) /dev/hde1 Swap /dev/hde2 on /usr (ext3) /dev/hde3 on /home (ext3) The output of sed 1q /proc/ide/ide2/config: pci bus 00 device 48 vendor 1095 device 0680 channel 0 I dont know the exact type of the the card. I am happy that it works... My boot manager is grub. The 2.6.8-3-386 kernel boots without any problem. The exact version of the working kernel is (output of cat /proc/version): Linux version 2.6.8-3-386 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #1 Sat Jul 15 09:26:40 UTC 2006 How I experienced the problem: After the internet installation I got a 2.6.8 kernel. I wanted to use a webcam, but the spca5xx modules package required a 2.6.18 kernel, so I decided to update the kernel. I used aptitude for the installation. After the installation, I wanted to boot my new kernel. The kernel booted, but after a short while strange error messages appeared on the screen and I found myself in this little shell named busybox. The most important messages here: Messages: Running /scripts/local-premount [...] name_to_dev_t(/dev/hda1) = hda1(3,1) Trying to resume from /dev/hda1 Attempting manual resume [...] kinit: No resume image [...] Mounting /sys on /root/sys failed [...] /scripts/init-bottom Mounting /root/dev on /dev/static/dev failed (Sorry for not giving a whole transcript, I found no way to write it to a file...) Important additional information: I read a little in the scripts in /scripts (but I didn't understand them fully and I didn't try this). They seem to expect the root file system (in my case /dev/hda3) mounted on /root - but as I looked in /root, I found my /home directories on this machine. But the system seems to "believe", that the /dev/hde disk is my /dev/hda disk, a "mount" command shows me that /dev/hda was mounted. Really strange, and not what I expected... But it can go much stranger. I made a second try and booted the Kernel in recovery mode (single user, with the single parameter to the kernel). And it booted without any problems. This is really weird, but I can not analyze it further. (Analyzing such problems is fun, but not the thing I boot a computer for.) Of course, it is reproduceable on my machine. I think, there comes a subtle bug in the kernel or the scripts on the initrd together with the unusual hardware. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
