On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Miles Bader wrote: > In case anybody remembers, I was previously having problems with > booting the debian standard kernel on my machine (a custom compiled > kernel works fine). In that case, the problem was intermittent: > sometimes it would dump me into the emergency shell, where I could > just mount the root filesystem by hand and the boot would continue > successfully. Sometimes that _didn't_ happen, and I guess the problem > probably had something to do with a race condition involving the scsi > root disk (the adaptec driver by default seems to have a stupidly long > delay to let the scsi bus settle, like 15 seconds [my hand-compiled > kernel uses a delay of 200ms!]).
the easy workaround for such a situation is bootarg rootdelay=7 documented in etch release notes. > So recently I upgraded my kernel to "vmlinuz-2.6.22-2-686" (version > 2.6.22-4), thinking maybe things might work a bit better ... and now, it > won't boot at all!!! Argh... > > It again dumps me into the emergency shell, and I _can_ mount the root > device by hand like I could before, using the command: > > mount -text2 /dev/root /root > > If I then (again, as before) hit ^D to let the boot continue, it gives > an error message like: > > ...: /bin/sh file not found "auto" > > and then it panics and halts (sorry don't remember the exact wording of the > message). well the exact error message would be helpfull, did you land into boot rescue console ? > Have the details of the boot scripts changed between "vmlinuz-2.6.22-1-686" > (the previous version I was running, which would boot with hand assistance) > and "vmlinuz-2.6.22-2-686"? Anybody have any ideas what might be > happening? What is this "auto"...? could you please give more information: dpkg -l initramfs-tools sed 's/#.*$//;/^[[:space:]]*$/d' /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf cat /proc/cmdline > [My root disk is a scsi disk hanging off an Adaptec AHA-2940U controller; > it's using the "aic7xxx" driver.] for the record, here you'll find debug instructions: -> http://wiki.debian.org/InitramfsDebug best regards -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
