tags 362631 morinfo severity 362631 important reassign 362631 initramfs-tools stop
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 06:19:04PM +0100, C. Dominik =?UTF-8?Q?B=C3=B3di ?= wrote: > *** Please type your report below this line *** > The kernel seems to boot up normally, but then fails to mount the root device > with a message > "failed to mount root on /dev/hda8 - no such device" that is the error message of initramfs-tools when no root device came up. i guess you got into the rescue shell: did you check if /dev/hda8 existed? did you check which modules got loaded? > according to dmesg logs I can see that hda gets initialised normally. I > could not find any errors related to the initalisation of the ide controller > or hard disk, either. > > Booting the kernel without the initial ramdisk fails with a kernel panic. sure modular ide needs the drivers to recognise your root. > The system used to work with version 2.6.16-5 or earlier. However, since the > last upgrade was done on April 3rd 2006, I cannot remember the exact version > of the linux-image package I upgraded from. Due to not having a backup > kernel installed, I had to re-install the box from scratch and lost all > apt/dpkg logfiles. hmm will make hard to check what error you had. > I tried booting the linux-image-2.6.16-1-686 instead but bot the same error. where you using grub? please post: cat /proc/cmdline what about your reinstall does it boot normaly? regards -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
