Re: Squeeze update => disk unbootable

2011-02-16 Thread Frank Miles
Firstly, thanks Tom for asking about the udev version. Since I cannot boot the system I can't ask udev directly; however in /var/cache/apt/archives, the only udev pkg is 164-3. - I think I'm closer to understanding the problem. To clear up one thing: the system is partway to grub-2.

Re: Squeeze update => disk unbootable

2011-02-15 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Frank Miles wrote: > > Does mixing UUIDs in grub with LABELs in fstab pose a problem? No. But update-grub'll use "root=UUID=..." not "root=LABEL=..." on the linux line in grub.cfg. What version of udev are you running? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: Squeeze update => disk unbootable

2011-02-15 Thread Frank Miles
Thanks, Andrei. Unfortunately so far it hasn't worked. I've got the swap and all the ext3 partitions labeled (verified by cfdisk), and with the rescue disk boot the labels seem to work. I've modified /etc/fstab, replacing the original /dev/hdaX entries with the new LABEL=Y entries. But when

Re: Squeeze update => disk unbootable

2011-02-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 14 feb 11, 20:41:11, Frank Miles wrote: > I've just tried updating a seldom-used laptop from "lenny" (2.6.26 > custom-compiled kernel) > to "squeeze". Everything seemed to be working perfectly until the > reboot. Rebooting gives a repeated message "fsck died with exit > status 8". > > Us