Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-28 Thread lee
Philipp Überbacher writes: > Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-27 20:57:55 +0200: > > I'm now at the point where it boots in qemu and via usb-boot from my > laptop but not in the real hardware. I need to get a serial-to-usb > adapter to diagnose further, working blind doesn't help a lot... >

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-27 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-27 20:57:55 +0200: > Philipp Überbacher writes: > > > However, after spending many hours on this (thanks phcoder from #grub) > > it turned out that necessary modules were missing from initramfs. > > Adding jfs was enough for the system to boot in qemu but no

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-27 Thread lee
Philipp Überbacher writes: > However, after spending many hours on this (thanks phcoder from #grub) > it turned out that necessary modules were missing from initramfs. > Adding jfs was enough for the system to boot in qemu but not for the > real hardware. I've not yet found out what's necessary f

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-26 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Joe's message of 2011-06-26 21:46:47 +0200: > On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:44:49 +0200 > Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > > > > I tried manual mounting from busybox: > > mount /dev/sda1 /root > > fails with Invalid Argument > > > > mount -t jfs /dev/sda1 /root > > fails with No suc

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-26 Thread Joe
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:44:49 +0200 Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > I tried manual mounting from busybox: > mount /dev/sda1 /root > fails with Invalid Argument > > mount -t jfs /dev/sda1 /root > fails with No such device > > So this is what happens during boot as well. I found a post sugg

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-26 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Philipp Überbacher's message of 2011-06-26 04:38:27 +0200: > Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 22:40:59 +0200: > > Philipp Überbacher writes: > > > > > Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 20:06:48 +0200: > > >> Philipp Überbacher writes: > > >> > > >> > The system wa

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-25 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 22:40:59 +0200: > Philipp Überbacher writes: > > > Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 20:06:48 +0200: > >> Philipp Überbacher writes: > >> > >> > The system waits for the root file system for a while and then > >> > drops into a shell with the (i

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-25 Thread lee
Philipp Überbacher writes: > Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 20:06:48 +0200: >> Philipp Überbacher writes: >> >> > The system waits for the root file system for a while and then >> > drops into a shell with the (initramfs) prompt. >> > >> > There's no /dev/sd* or /dev/disk for some re

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-25 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 20:06:48 +0200: > Philipp Überbacher writes: > > > The system waits for the root file system for a while and then drops > > into a shell with the (initramfs) prompt. > > > > There's no /dev/sd* or /dev/disk for some reason. > > A few weeks ago I found th

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-25 Thread lee
Philipp Überbacher writes: > The system waits for the root file system for a while and then drops > into a shell with the (initramfs) prompt. > > There's no /dev/sd* or /dev/disk for some reason. A few weeks ago I found that I was suddenly unable to boot a self-compiled kernel after making a cha

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-25 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Philipp's message of 2011-06-25 15:12:26 +0200: > Hi there, > I have a debian server that doesn't boot anymore since I ran > upgrade-from-grub-legacy. It uses xen. I managed to upgrade to Debian > 6 and got everything working. Well, a power outage caused my domUs to > not boot anymore

debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-25 Thread Philipp
Hi there, I have a debian server that doesn't boot anymore since I ran upgrade-from-grub-legacy. It uses xen. I managed to upgrade to Debian 6 and got everything working. Well, a power outage caused my domUs to not boot anymore and while trying to deal with that I also figured I didn't complete the