Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 22:40:59 +0200: > Philipp Überbacher <hollun...@lavabit.com> writes: > > > Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 20:06:48 +0200: > >> Philipp Überbacher <hollun...@lavabit.com> writes: > >> > >> > The system waits for the root file system for a while and then > >> > drops into a shell with the (initramfs) prompt. > >> > > >> > There's no /dev/sd* or /dev/disk for some reason. > >> > >> A few weeks ago I found that I was suddenly unable to boot a > >> self-compiled kernel after making a change to only one option which > >> wouldn't affect booting at all. The kernel couldn't find the root fs > >> and after some waiting put me into an emergency shell. Apparently the > >> lvm volumes the root fs resides on were unavailable for unknown > >> reasons. > >> > >> Fortunately, kernels from Debian packages still boot. I haven't found > >> a solution other than to run stock kernels yet. The only thing I > >> could find out is that it eventually has something to do with the > >> initramfs not being built correctly by the update-initramfs tool. > > > > Thanks lee, I think I saw a bug report regarding your > > problem. However, in my case no LVM is involved. Could it be that the > > initramfs is messed up for some reason? > > The initramfs image for a particular kernel comes in a Debian package > with the kernel, doesn't it? If generating the images were to produce > broken images, wouldn't there be quite a few people having similar > problems? I really don't know ... > > What if you install a more recent kernel from a rescue system?
I managed to install the normal most recent kernel (.32-5) by chroot and it doesn't boot either. In addition I uninstalled mdadm to make sure it's not the cause of those issues, yet no luck, it fails at init-bottom because it doesn't manage to mount root. Could it be that grub2 can't handle a jfs root? I'm pretty much out of ideas. I'll try downgrading to grub1 tomorrow.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1309055672-sup-414@eris
