On 2009-07-21, Bruce Ward <bmw...@orcon.net.nz> wrote: > Juha Tuuna said: > >>> The boot fails with messages: >>> Gave up waiting for root device. >>> ALERT! /dev/disk/by-label/D5root does not exist. >>> Dropping to a shell! >>> >>> At that stage there is no /dev/disk directory (let alone a by-label >>> subdir!) >>> >>> I use labels for my partitions because I have a mix of SATA and SCSI >>> disks and Etch and Lenny find them in different order! I have exactly >>> equivalent GRUB stanzas for both kernels; 2.6.26-1-686 has no problem. >>> >>Try editing /boot/grub/menu.lst > >> Look at the working 2.6.26-1 entry and then match the root= in 2.6.26-2 entry >> accordingly. That should be it. > > Done that. That is not the problem - here are the GRUB menu.lst entries: > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686 > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=LABEL=D5root ro quiet > initrd /initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686 Are you sure the initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686 are correctly generated?
> > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-686 > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=LABEL=D5root ro quiet > initrd /initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686 > > The second one works, the first fails. Why? > > Bruce > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
