Control: severity -1 serious Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Sun, 2014-10-26 at 21:41 +0100, Richard Lucassen wrote: > Package: initramfs-tools > Version: 0.116 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks the whole system > > Dear Maintainer, > > During an update, this is what I see: > > [..] > Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.116) ... > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.16-3-amd64 > /803: No such file or directory > [update continues] > > After a reboot, the system is unbootable due to a missing rootfs. [...]
We support hexadecimal device numbers in the 'root=' kernel parameter
when booting, but do not expect to see them at build time in the mount
table.
Please provide the output of 'mount' on one such system.
You are recommended to specify the root device on the kernel command
line using the syntax 'root=UUID=...'
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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