Hi, on Wednesday 19 August 2009, you wrote: > Hello Robin, > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 08:59:35AM -0600, Robin Haunschild wrote: > > Package: release-notes > > Severity: important > > > > I also got this error after the upgrade from etch to lenny but I was > > surprised to see that neither hdaX nor sdaX was able to provide a root > > file system. Surprisingly, my lenny with kernel 2.6.26-1-686 has still > > the hda nomenclature of the hard disks. The old etch kernel was still > > able to boot. The problem was that the upgrade procedure put a symlink > > from /vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 and analogously with > > initrd.img. My root and boot directories are on separate partitions. > > Therefore /vmlinuz pointed into nothing during the boot sequence. After > > removing this symlink and copying the kernel from /boot to /vmlinuz lenny > > was able to boot. > > I'm not really aware of how the boot system is installed, but maybe the > answers to the questions below can help finding where is the issue or how > to document it. > > What is your bootloader?
grub > What are the file systems used for your root and boot partitions? /dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) > Are you using LVM? No. > With the process you described above, you probably also drop support for > security updates of the kernel. > > Did you experience other issues since your etch->lenny upgrade (e.g. > during kernel updates)? > Or was /vmlinuz replaced by a symlink in the mean time? No, I experienced no other issues and /vmlinuz was not replaced by a symlink, but I am running the kernel 2.6.26-1-686. I think apt/aptitude changed my /boot/grub/menu.lst accordingly. My standard boot entry is: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-686 root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=/dev/hda3 ro vga=791 initrd /initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686 So, /vmlinuz is no longer required and after a kernel update apt/aptitude changes the /boot/grub/menu.lst to use the newest kernel as standard. BTW: /vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 is located on my boot partition: $ ls -l /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1506512 Mar 13 17:36 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 $ ls -l /vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 ls: cannot access /vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686: No such file or directory The file vmlinuz still exists, was not changed or updated after the upgrade: $ ls -l /vmlinuz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1505936 Feb 21 15:32 /vmlinuz Best regards, Robin -- Robin Haunschild <h...@unschild.de> http://www.tuxschild.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
