On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 02:14:08PM -0400, Bec Dridan wrote: > Hi, > > I have just installed Debian on my new MacBook. After getting a basic > working testing system, I tried to dist-upgrade to unstable and now it > won't boot. It runs LILO, boots a 2.6.25-2-686 kernel and then can't > mount the root system. > > I get: > > mount: No such device > mount: No such file or directory > > Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init > No init found. Try passing init= bootarg. > > /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off > > and then > (initramfs) > > When I boot from the install CD in rescue mode, I can mount /dev/sda3 > (my root partition) but since I am not sure what is wrong, I don't > know how to rescue it. I tried searching the archives but can't find > anything similar described. Can anyone give me some suggestions?
It's possible that your device names have changed. You might try editing fstab to mount by labels or disk-ids, rebuild your initrd and try again. There are many posts in the archives here about using disk-ids or labels... A
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