reassign 360893 initramfs-tools tags 360893 moreinfo stop On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:42:54AM +0200, Nicola Manini wrote: > *** Please type your report below this line *** > Hi, > after a regular upgrade to the present version of udev a new > problem occurs: udev claims it discovers the hardware correctly and in > particular gives out some messages about my Maxtor, about calling it hda, > hda1, hda2 etc. > Then, after hanging there for a while, the initialization scripts say they > cannot find /dev/hda1 (which is supposed to be mounted as root) and drop to > a shell. Indeed from there ls /dev/hd* gives nothing for a couple of > minutes. After that, a message udevd-event about find_free_number: %e is > deprecated... , such as reported in #359978 #357741, pops up. Only now the > correct /dev/hd... are created. > After this, if I do nothing and exit from the shell, the system completes > its normal boot. > > I read Marco's initial message and was doubtful about the appropriateness > of this bug report, but eventually I thought that I was running udev before > on the same machine with no problem, and never changed any setup manually. > So there is likely some real bug in either udev or in its interaction with > the boot scripts. > > Let me know if more hardware/configuration details are needed.
are you using grub? which version of initramfs-tools do you use? aka output of: dpkg -l initramfs-tools -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]