Toon Moene wrote:
Three months ago I bought a machine (from a vendor I won't name, because
it was HP), that featured a 320 Gbyte IDE drive and a (removable, but
Heh...
kept installed in my case) 320 Gbyte SCSI device).
The Stable install went fine - IDE drive got /dev/hda1 (swap) and
/dev/hda2 (/ - the rest of the device). SCSI drive got /dev/sda1
(/scratch - I need lots of it).
So far, so good. I downloaded the e1000 ethernet driver, because it
wasn't included in stable's 2.6.18-5 kernel. Compiled, modprobed,
dhclient'ed to my ISP's modem, all OK.
Changed /etc/apt/sources.list to exclude the DVD and include
deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian testing main contrib
and apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade'd away.
Unfortunately, the resulting system (unlike the original from the DVD)
won't boot - it can't find the boot device. It does (helpfully) display
the message that the root device might be renamed (/dev/sda2), but
booting with that root device doesn't bring up the system.
Did any of these steps do a
mkinitramfs
that you remember? If so, is it possible that your scsi stuff got
excluded from the initrd?
Something rather fundamental must have changed (probably in udev)
between "stable" and the recent "testing" system - but what ?
Might not be udev, could be a missing scsi driver in initrd.
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