John ff wrote: > All is OK with vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64, but both 3.16.0-4-amd64 and > 3.16.0-5-amd64 fail to load. When equipped with a screen I see it > says Loading .. but it does not complete with no disk activity. The > 3.2.0-4-amd64 kernel gives the same loading message followed shortly by > saying the /dev/sda2 disk partition is clean and it continues to boot. > Sorry I cannot remember the exact words after "Loading" but this m/c > usually runs headless as my firewall and server.
I was forced to run 3.2 for quite a time, because newer did not boot. In my case AMD cpu in headless server. I found out that for some reason initramfs-tools did not package /sbin/switch_root, so I unpacked initrd, copied switch_root manually and packed again. You can see more if you remove the "quite" option from the kernel command line or use the recovery boot option. If this wouldn't help I would pass init=/bin/sh and work out the boot process manually to see where it fails. At one point of time there was something with udev. regards
