Re: btrfs snapshots (of root file system)?

2023-10-04 Thread hw
nd I'm not gona try to delete it before unmounting it. So how do you delete a subvolume? Why isn't the path adjusted when renaming it? That must be somehow buggy. > > with btrfs, how do I make a snapshot of the root file system? The > > purpose is to update software and bein

Re: btrfs snapshots (of root file system)?

2023-10-02 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 7:20 AM hw wrote: > > Hi, Hello! I'm not going into much detail but maybe I can guide you to better be able to find what you want. > with btrfs, how do I make a snapshot of the root file system? The > purpose is to update software and being able to go b

Fwd: btrfs snapshots (of root file system)?

2023-10-02 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Try ext4 All the best Keith BAINBRIDGE +61 (0)447 667 468 keithr...@gmail.com UTC + 10 >From my Apad -- Forwarded message - From: Keith Bainbridge Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2023, 20:32 Subject: Re: btrfs snapshots (of root file system)? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org I

Re: btrfs snapshots (of root file system)?

2023-10-02 Thread Keith Bainbridge
; with btrfs, how do I make a snapshot of the root file system? The > purpose is to update software and being able to go back to a previous > state if necessary. > > There doesn't seem to be a command to create snapshots but only > subvolumes? How does a subvolume turn into a

Re: btrfs snapshots (of root file system)?

2023-10-01 Thread hw
On Sun, 2023-10-01 at 10:51 +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > hw wrote: > > Hi, > > > > with btrfs, how do I make a snapshot of the root file system? The > > purpose is to update software and being able to go back to a previous > > state if necessary.

Re: btrfs snapshots (of root file system)?

2023-10-01 Thread debian-user
hw wrote: > Hi, > > with btrfs, how do I make a snapshot of the root file system? The > purpose is to update software and being able to go back to a previous > state if necessary. > > There doesn't seem to be a command to create snapshots but only > subvolumes? H

btrfs snapshots (of root file system)?

2023-09-30 Thread hw
Hi, with btrfs, how do I make a snapshot of the root file system? The purpose is to update software and being able to go back to a previous state if necessary. There doesn't seem to be a command to create snapshots but only subvolumes? How does a subvolume turn into a snapshot? (The root

Re: After upgrade, Debian Jessie boots into read-only root file system

2015-09-12 Thread Jarle Aase
, Jarle Aase wrote: > Hi, > > This morning my workstation booted into a read-only root file > system. I assumed that it was the old SSD drive that was closing > to end of life, - but when I booted my laptop, that also booted > into read-only. > > The system came up after I

After upgrade, Debian Jessie boots into read-only root file system

2015-09-12 Thread Jarle Aase
Hi, This morning my workstation booted into a read-only root file system. I assumed that it was the old SSD drive that was closing to end of life, - but when I booted my laptop, that also booted into read-only. The system came up after I re-mounted root to read-write, and re-started kdm

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > The bathtub curve also applies for software systems, in practice. When > you aim for realiability, you need to consider the general maintenance > state of the underlying kernel code (bitrot that crept in as other parts > of the kernel changed and evolved, gener

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-12 Thread David Christensen
On 05/12/2015 08:34 AM, Ken Heard wrote: Why not ... create RAID1 with two drives, then LVM, and set up encryption for three LVM virtual partitions, swap (random key), tmp and home (both with passphrases)-- everything else in unencrypted virtual partitions. TIMTOWTDI. I prefer to encrypt eve

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-12 Thread Ken Heard
On 2015-05-05 12:39, David Christensen wrote: Briefly -- to obtain encrypted file systems, the process is to create partitions, mark them as encrypted volumes, configure the encrypted volumes, and then put LVM and/or file systems into the encrypted volumes. Why not the other way? I have bee

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, May 11, 2015, at 12:36, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Mon, 11 May 2015 11:50:41 -0300 > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > In that sense, ext2 is not nearly as good a choice as it once was. A > > newly created ext3 with default parameters (yes, that means it gets a > > journal -- that's

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-11 Thread Ron
On Mon, 11 May 2015 11:50:41 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > In that sense, ext2 is not nearly as good a choice as it once was. A > newly created ext3 with default parameters (yes, that means it gets a > journal -- that's how it gets most use and most testing) is a better bet > nowada

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, May 8, 2015, at 17:00, Bob Proulx wrote: > I always use and recommend ext2 for /boot. It avoids wasting space in The bathtub curve also applies for software systems, in practice. When you aim for realiability, you need to consider the general maintenance state of the underlying kernel co

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Juha Heinanen wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > > Why no LVM? Using LVM is the way I always do it because that allows > > I didn't have any particular reason to avoid LVM. I just tried if > encrypted installation succeeds without it. Now that I tried with LVM, > installation was simple and worked wi

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
David Christensen wrote: > Juha Heinanen wrote: > > On Partition settings screen, I choose Use as Ext2, Mount point /boot, and > > Bootable flag on. Then I choose Done setting up the partition. > > Why ext2? I use ext4. I always use and recommend ext2 for /boot. It avoids wasting space in the

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-07 Thread Juha Heinanen
Bob Proulx writes: > Why no LVM? Using LVM is the way I always do it because that allows > me to encrypt a single partition and therefore only require a single > passphrase to decrypt and load. Typically with multiple partitions > then each and every separate partition requires a passphrase. Th

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Juha Heinanen wrote: > I'll watch the video, but I was not planing to use LVM and my problem is > related to non-LVM partition encyrption. Why no LVM? Using LVM is the way I always do it because that allows me to encrypt a single partition and therefore only require a single passphrase to decrypt

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-05 Thread David Christensen
On 05/05/2015 10:34 AM, Juha Heinanen wrote: Here are the steps I made. Detect disk results in screen where the disk that I try to partition shows pri/log 15.8 GB FREE SPACE. I will assume you have a 16 GB drive with no other partitions. I select it and on the next screen, I select Create a

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-05 Thread Juha Heinanen
now shows three partitions: #1 primary 14.7 MB ext2 /boot #5 logical 15.1 GB crypto (sdc5_crypt) #6 logical 693.1 MB crypto (sdc5_crypt) Then I select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk. That results in red screen complaining No root file system Please correct this from the

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-05 Thread Juha Heinanen
Patrick Bartek writes: > More details of exactly what you did would help. That is. Did you use > LVM or Primary/Logical partitioning? Which partitions did you encrypt? > You didn't encrypt /boot did you? Did you let the installer handle the > partitioning and encryption or did you set up encrypti

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-05 Thread Juha Heinanen
ed to describe. After I have properly configured encrypted root partition (mount point is /) and then write the partition to disk, the mount point has disappeared and I get the error message "No root file system defined". When I have more time, I'll send detailed email about the s

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-05 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 04 May 2015, Juha Heinanen wrote: > I'm trying to install debian jessie with three partitions: /boot, /, > and swap. i'm able to create and encrypt the partitions fine, but > when I then try to changes to disk, installer complains: > > No root file system def

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-05 Thread David Christensen
On 05/04/2015 11:02 AM, Juha Heinanen wrote: I'm trying to install debian jessie with three partitions: /boot, /, and swap. i'm able to create and encrypt the partitions fine, but when I then try to changes to disk, installer complains: No root file system defined, please correct

no root file system after encryption

2015-05-04 Thread Juha Heinanen
I'm trying to install debian jessie with three partitions: /boot, /, and swap. i'm able to create and encrypt the partitions fine, but when I then try to changes to disk, installer complains: No root file system defined, please correct this from partitioning menu. The second par

Re: waiting for root file system

2010-11-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
still upload the content of the files to "www.pastebin.com" After 'waiting for root file system' and the 5 minute wait, initrd drops to a shell and says "/dev/dis/by-label/wd80_0jd-60.06 does not exist" and sure enough it don't and that us the new sata conne

Re: waiting for root file system

2010-11-21 Thread Camaleón
e). Also, include the output of "fdisk -l" that will help us to >> get a better understanding of your current system structure :-) >> >> > I can't attach files: TB hangs forever then, will register via yahoo! You mean Thunderbird is facing any problem? :-?

Re: waiting for root file system

2010-11-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Maybe now is a good time for you to put your Grub's menu config (either upload the full file to an external server or attach the file to the message). Also, include the output of "fdisk -l" that will help us to get a better understanding of your current system structure :-) I use SGD. I at

Re: waiting for root file system

2010-11-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
angs after initrd with "waiting for root file system" So, you have changed not only the board but also the disk interface (it was ide and now is sata)? Does the new kernel has "libata" module loaded? It was a sata disk in an external enclosure connected with USB, now it

Re: waiting for root file system

2010-11-21 Thread Camaleón
nd boots it, but > it hangs after initrd with "waiting for root file system" So, you have changed not only the board but also the disk interface (it was ide and now is sata)? Does the new kernel has "libata" module loaded? Maybe now is a good time for you to put your Grub&#x

Re: waiting for root file system

2010-11-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 09:58:00 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I changed motherboards and now when I boot I get "waiting for root file > system". (...) Same motherboard or a different (brand/model) one? How are the sata BIOS settings now and then (sata/ahci/raid)? Maybe you

Re: waiting for root file system

2010-11-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 09:58:00 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I changed motherboards and now when I boot I get "waiting for root file system". (...) Same motherboard or a different (brand/model) one? Different motherboard/cpu/memory old:epox 8VTAI new:asus M

waiting for root file system

2010-11-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I changed motherboards and now when I boot I get "waiting for root file system". But the disks have not changed, they are the same ones as with the old motherboard. All partitions are labelled. One disk had a USB connection on the old motherboard and now has a SATA connection.

Re: how to check root file system?

2009-09-14 Thread m.Pcy
Tim Tebbit wrote: > > Long Wind wrote: > > I use etch, which resides at /dev/sda4 > > how to check /dev/sda4 for errors? > > > fsck from liveCD > or > shutdown -rF which will fsck on its way back up. Or $ touch /forcefsck && reboot > > Are you experiencing errors? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: how to check root file system?

2009-09-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-14 01:32, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-09-14 03:43 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Using a Live CD is the safest route... No need to fiddle with that, "shutdown -Fr now" should do the trick. But the boot continues. Probably just a personal foible, but I like to be able to do

Re: how to check root file system?

2009-09-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-14 03:43 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-09-13 18:33, Steve Reilly wrote: >> Long Wind wrote: >>> I use etch, which resides at /dev/sda4 >>> how to check /dev/sda4 for errors? >>> >>> >> >> fsck /dev/yourdevice >> > > You can't fsck a mounted fs, and / is most certainly mounted. Tr

Re: how to check root file system?

2009-09-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-13 18:33, Steve Reilly wrote: Long Wind wrote: I use etch, which resides at /dev/sda4 how to check /dev/sda4 for errors? fsck /dev/yourdevice You can't fsck a mounted fs, and / is most certainly mounted. Using a Live CD is the safest route... -- Brawndo's got what plants crav

Re: how to check root file system?

2009-09-13 Thread Steve Reilly
Long Wind wrote: > I use etch, which resides at /dev/sda4 > how to check /dev/sda4 for errors? > > fsck /dev/yourdevice -- Steve Reilly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: how to check root file system?

2009-09-13 Thread Tim Tebbit
Long Wind wrote: > I use etch, which resides at /dev/sda4 > how to check /dev/sda4 for errors? fsck from liveCD or shutdown -rF which will fsck on its way back up. Are you experiencing errors? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

how to check root file system?

2009-09-13 Thread Long Wind
I use etch, which resides at /dev/sda4 how to check /dev/sda4 for errors? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > Robert P. J. Day 写道: > > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > > > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > > > > > > (with respect to getting my /dev/sda* device files built) > > > > > > > > > > So here, your best choice seems to try. > > > > he

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Niu Kun
Robert P. J. Day 写道: On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: (with respect to getting my /dev/sda* device files built) So here, your best choice seems to try. here's my z60_hdparm.rules file: i'm assuming that's a brand new rules fil

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > > (with respect to getting my /dev/sda* device files built) > > > So here, your best choice seems to try. > > here's my z60_hdparm.rules file: > > i'm assuming that's a brand new rules file, right? not just add

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: (with respect to getting my /dev/sda* device files built) > So here, your best choice seems to try. > here's my z60_hdparm.rules file: i'm assuming that's a brand new rules file, right? not just adding to an existing rules file since i have no such file. >

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Niu Kun
d to) etch system to the newly-installed 2.6 kernel (either 2.6.18 or 2.6.24, either original or rebuilt), i got: Waiting for root file system... and it hung, with all evidence pointing to the fact that the booting system simply couldn't see the hard drive, which it could see under the earli

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Niu Kun wrote: >> >> >> > Pretty cool. > Really appreciate your detailed reply. > > NP. hope it helps or gives you at least an idea how I'm doing this. I've had several times related issues as I've been using raid/lvm and also encryption, so years ago I wrote my own scripts to create initrd

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Niu Kun
Emanoil Kotsev 写道: Niu Kun wrote: and last but not least it's pretty tricky to boot broken initram but not too hard if you know the steps. Would you please say something about this? Or any useful link that can be referenced? regards First of all I would try to provi

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Niu Kun wrote: >> and last but not least it's pretty tricky to boot broken initram but not >> too hard if you know the steps. >> > Would you please say something about this? > Or any useful link that can be referenced? >> regards First of all I would try to provide the root kernel option. If y

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
the newly-installed 2.6 kernel (either 2.6.18 or 2.6.24, either original or rebuilt), i got: Waiting for root file system... and it hung, with all evidence pointing to the fact that the booting system simply couldn't see the hard drive, which it could see under the earlier (devfs-enabled

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Niu Kun
Emanoil Kotsev 写道: Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: Have you ever run update-initramfs command manually on the pre-compiled kernel? I remember that I fixed such a problem once. Hope this will help. And look forward to your feedback. nope -- as i me

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > >> Have you ever run update-initramfs command manually on the >> pre-compiled kernel? I remember that I fixed such a problem once. >> Hope this will help. And look forward to your feedback. > > nope -- as i mentioned earlier, i'm

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > Have you ever run update-initramfs command manually on the > pre-compiled kernel? I remember that I fixed such a problem once. > Hope this will help. And look forward to your feedback. nope -- as i mentioned earlier, i'm fairly new to debian so a good deal

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > that is the *ultimate* goal, but i'm doing this in steps. on the > chance that it's the default 2.6.18 etch kernel, i just upgraded that > to the 2.6.24 etchnhalf kernel. we'll see if that fixes things. upgrading to the 2.6.24 etchnhalf kernel

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Niu Kun
n fact contain megaraid modules.) thoughts? the last few lines of boot diagnostics are: Done. Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... Done. Begin: Waiting for root file system ... then ... hang. it's pretty clearly a problem in just seeing/accessin

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
garaid controller that might be relevant? i've > > opened up the relevant initrd image and it does in fact contain > > megaraid modules.) > > > > thoughts? the last few lines of boot diagnostics are: > > > > Done. > > Begin: Mounting root file system

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Niu Kun
of boot diagnostics are: Done. Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... Done. Begin: Waiting for root file system ... then ... hang. it's pretty clearly a problem in just seeing/accessing the sole hard drive in the system. i just

"Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
stics are: Done. Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... Done. Begin: Waiting for root file system ... then ... hang. it's pretty clearly a problem in just seeing/accessing the sole hard drive in the system. i just

Hang on reboot with: "Waiting for root file system"

2009-08-18 Thread Niu Kun
Dear all, I've got an old Debian sarge box. And I want to upgrade it to the newest lenny stable version. I've encountered the problem mentioned in the following link: http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/kernel.html I had tried to upgrade my system to etch once, but the system failed to boot after

Re: Waiting for root file system...

2009-01-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 2009 January 23 01:38:57 lovecreatesbeauty.g-mail.c0m wrote: >I updated kernel on debian-40r6 (2.6.18) to 2.6.28 from kernel.org, >and got the error* "Waiting for root file system..." when booting the >new kernel. Ah, I've seen that a few times, myself. >T

Re: Waiting for root file system...

2009-01-23 Thread lovecreatesbea...@gmail.c0m
On Jan 23, 4:00 pm, "lovecreatesbeauty.g-mail.c0m" wrote: > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28.1 root=/dev/sda1 ro > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28.1 > sorry the occurences of "28.1" above should be "28" . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Waiting for root file system...

2009-01-22 Thread lovecreatesbeauty.g-mail.c0m
[I'm sorry if it's boring you] I updated kernel on debian-40r6 (2.6.18) to 2.6.28 from kernel.org, and got the error* "Waiting for root file system..." when booting the new kernel. The linux's hosted in VMware Workstation 6.0. The commands I issued were: m

Re: root file system question

2008-06-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 11:18 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > This is more of a theoretical Unix question, > > When there are no users on the system, the system is idle, would there > still be I/O activity on the root disks? Yes. > If so, what processes will be doing the I/O ? Writing to log, cron jobs

Re: root file system question

2008-06-22 Thread Mag Gam
Very good points. Trying to understand Linux from a theoretical point of view. On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Gilles Mocellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Sunday 22 June 2008 18:08:45 Ron Johnson, vous avez écrit : > > On 06/22/08 11:01, Mag Gam wrote: > > > Ok, so in theory assuming no p

Re: root file system question

2008-06-22 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Sunday 22 June 2008 18:08:45 Ron Johnson, vous avez écrit : > On 06/22/08 11:01, Mag Gam wrote: > > Ok, so in theory assuming no processes use hd resources then there > > should be no HD activity. > > Swap. Even if you have adequate memory, Linux will occasionally > move things to swap space.

Re: root file system question

2008-06-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/22/08 11:01, Mag Gam wrote: > Ok, so in theory assuming no processes use hd resources then there > should be no HD activity. Swap. Even if you have adequate memory, Linux will occasionally move things to swap space. Of course, you can disable

Re: root file system question

2008-06-22 Thread Mag Gam
Ok, so in theory assuming no processes use hd resources then there should be no HD activity. On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:36 AM, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is more of a theoretical Unix question, > > > > When the

Re: root file system question

2008-06-22 Thread David
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is more of a theoretical Unix question, > > When there are no users on the system, the system is idle, would there still > be I/O activity on the root disks? > > If so, what processes will be doing the I/O ? Depends entirel

root file system question

2008-06-22 Thread Mag Gam
This is more of a theoretical Unix question, When there are no users on the system, the system is idle, would there still be I/O activity on the root disks? If so, what processes will be doing the I/O ? TIA

Re: Booting kernel 2.6.25 from Debian40r3 prompts: Waiting for root file system

2008-05-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:04:12AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On May 5, 5:40 am, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 03:50:28AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > $ cat /proc/partitions > > > major minor #blocks name > > >8 08388608 sda > > >

Re: Booting kernel 2.6.25 from Debian40r3 prompts: Waiting for root file system

2008-05-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 4, 7:20 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] The mount reports this inside that broken newly built 2.6.25 (initramfs) mount none on /sys type sysfs (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) udev on /udev type tmpfs (rw, size=10240k,mode=755) (initramfs) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Booting kernel 2.6.25 from Debian40r3 prompts: Waiting for root file system

2008-05-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 5, 5:40 am, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 03:50:28AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > $ cat /proc/partitions > > major minor #blocks name > >8 08388608 sda > >8 1 273073 sda1 > >8 2 1 sda2 > >8 530603

Re: Booting kernel 2.6.25 from Debian40r3 prompts: Waiting for root file system

2008-05-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 03:50:28AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On May 4, 6:40 pm, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:35:29PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Under the (initramfs) prompt, the uname -r reports 2.6.25. > > what is the output of cat  /proc/

Re: Booting kernel 2.6.25 from Debian40r3 prompts: Waiting for root file system

2008-05-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 4, 6:40 pm, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:35:29PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Under the (initramfs) prompt, the uname -r reports 2.6.25. > what is the output of cat  /proc/partitions, can you > see /dev/sda. > maybe the driver for you had is not i

Re: Booting kernel 2.6.25 from Debian40r3 prompts: Waiting for root file system

2008-05-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:35:29PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, [snip] > Under the (initramfs) prompt, the uname -r reports 2.6.25. what is the output of cat /proc/partitions, can you see /dev/sda. maybe the driver for you had is not in .25 > > > Thank you for your time. > > > --

Booting kernel 2.6.25 from Debian40r3 prompts: Waiting for root file system

2008-05-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, It presents the following error when I'm booting kernel 2.6.25 from Debian40r3 with built-in kernel 2.6.18-6-486 in VMWare: >Begin: Waiting for root file system... ... >Done. > Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline > or missing modules. devices: cat /proc/modules ls

Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-15 Thread Per Tunedal Debian
x27;s new randomness in how partitions are named > during boot. > Debian and other installers have not > yet worked around this relatively new problem. > > What you're seeing is an effect of that. > The udeb installer kernel got a different set of > device names than the

Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-10 Thread cls
boot. Debian and other installers have not yet worked around this relatively new problem. What you're seeing is an effect of that. The udeb installer kernel got a different set of device names than the installed kernel did, and the root file system never appears where the installed kernel has

Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-10 Thread Per Tunedal Debian
Florian Kulzer skrev: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:39:11 -0500, dave N wrote: > > [...] > >> Question: In the menu.lst grub file, how would I use >> the label assignment in the line: >> >> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-686 root=/dev/sdc2 ro > > I think this should be OK: > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.1

Re: 3rd SATA scrambles drive order? "Begin: Waiting for root file system . . . . . ."

2008-01-04 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 07:23:06AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been trying to find what the UUID of my swap file is but can't find blkid (as it was already suggested in this thread) from man blkid The blkid program is the command-line interface to working with libuuid(3) library.

Re: 3rd SATA scrambles drive order? "Begin: Waiting for root file system . . . . . ."

2008-01-04 Thread drn_temp2
- Original Message - From: "NN_il_Confusionario" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 1:15 AM Subject: Re: 3rd SATA scrambles drive order? "Begin: Waiting for root file system . . . . . ." On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 11:52:29AM -0600, Jona

Re: 3rd SATA scrambles drive order? "Begin: Waiting for root file system . . . . . ."

2008-01-03 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 11:52:29AM -0600, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > Someone else said using IDs in fstab only works with ext2/3, obviously > tune2fs > does, and I use ReiserFS. What then? from man mount: It is possible to indicate a block special device using its volume label or UUID (see th

Re: 3rd SATA scrambles drive order? "Begin: Waiting for root file system . . . . . ."

2008-01-03 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Thursday 03 January 2008 13:02, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/03/08 11:52, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > > Someone else said using IDs in fstab only works with ext2/3, obviously > > tune2fs does, and I use ReiserFS. What then? I'm interested in thre > > "Maybe" part, since UUIDs won't work for my situat

Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:39:11 -0500, dave N wrote: [...] > Question: In the menu.lst grub file, how would I use > the label assignment in the line: > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-686 root=/dev/sdc2 ro I think this should be OK: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-686 root=LABEL=your_root_label ro I

Re: 3rd SATA scrambles drive order? "Begin: Waiting for root file system . . . . . ."

2008-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/03/08 11:52, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 02 January 2008 23:40, Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Jan 2, 2008 9:37 PM, Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Is there something I can do about this? To make the new drive be sdc, I >>> me

Re: 3rd SATA scrambles drive order? "Begin: Waiting for root file system . . . . . ."

2008-01-03 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Wednesday 02 January 2008 23:40, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Jan 2, 2008 9:37 PM, Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there something I can do about this? To make the new drive be sdc, I > > mean? > > Why not mount by filesystem label instead of device name? The > filesystem label do

Re: 3rd SATA scrambles drive order? "Begin: Waiting for root file system . . . . . ."

2008-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/03/08 08:05, Stuart Gall wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonathan Wilson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have a computer with an Intel mainboard (I"ll look up the >> exact model later if it matters) running Etch. >> >> / is an 80G

Re: 3rd SATA scrambles drive order? "Begin: Waiting for root file system . . . . . ."

2008-01-03 Thread Stuart Gall
e just fine, the boot info > shows sdc, but after all the drive and ethernet detection, I get the > following message: > > Begin: Waiting for root file system . . .. . . > > (I'll note here that as soon as I unplug the SATA cable from the new drive > and > reboot ever

Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-03 Thread dave N
--- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:24:07AM -0800, Andrew > Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:24:07AM -0500, dave N > wrote: > > If you wait long enough (at least 30 seconds, > maybe a couple minutes, > > I

Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:24:07AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:24:07AM -0500, dave N wrote: > If you wait long enough (at least 30 seconds, maybe a couple minutes, > I can't remember) you should get dropped to a busybox shell. The

Re: 3rd SATA scrambles drive order? "Begin: Waiting for root file system . . . . . ."

2008-01-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 2, 2008 9:37 PM, Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there something I can do about this? To make the new drive be sdc, I mean? Why not mount by filesystem label instead of device name? The filesystem label doesn't change just because disks decided to detect in a different ord

3rd SATA scrambles drive order? "Begin: Waiting for root file system . . . . . ."

2008-01-02 Thread Jonathan Wilson
. I've only got 2 SATA ports left, 3 and 4. If I plug the new drive into either one, the machine boots, the bios recognizes the new drive just fine, the boot info shows sdc, but after all the drive and ethernet detection, I get the following message: Begin: Waiting for root file system .

Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-02 Thread dave N
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:04:18AM -0500, dave N wrote: > I booted with Knoppix live and there is nothing in /var/log/messages, none of > the logs appear to have changed since I last booted 2 days ago. I have not > run fsck or anything else on this yet

Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
photo of the screen > messages) > > Begin: Mounting root file system... ... > Begin: running /scripts/local-top ... > ide0: I/O resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free. > ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe > ide1: I/O resource 0x170-0x177 not free. > ide1: port

Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:04:18AM -0500, dave N wrote: > I booted with Knoppix live and there is nothing in /var/log/messages, none > of the logs appear to have changed since I last booted 2 days ago. I have not > run fsck or anything else on this yet. > > Ideas? This is usually a

Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-02 Thread dave N
formatted during install using ext3. During boot the system appears to find all the drives OK when I am reading as fast as I can, but then I get the following (from a photo of the screen messages) Begin: Mounting root file system... ... Begin: running /scripts/local-top ... ide0: I/O

"Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-02 Thread dave N
During boot the system appears to find all the drives OK when I am reading as fast as I can, but then I get the following (from a photo of the screen messages) Begin: Mounting root file system... ... Begin: running /scripts/local-top ... ide0: I/O resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free. i

Re: Wating for root file system. Kernel bug?

2007-12-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 07:13:49PM +0200, wanderlust wrote: > Hello. > > I'm trying to install Debian/etch on Acer Aspire 5520G, but the problem > is, that kernel 2.6.18 doesn't support Marvell netcard 436b. I found it > is supportable in 2.6.23.9, so I decided to compile it. I used default > conf

Wating for root file system. Kernel bug?

2007-12-11 Thread wanderlust
Hello. I'm trying to install Debian/etch on Acer Aspire 5520G, but the problem is, that kernel 2.6.18 doesn't support Marvell netcard 436b. I found it is supportable in 2.6.23.9, so I decided to compile it. I used default configuration, taken from /proc/config.gz and after compiling and installing

Re: Cannot mount root file system with vanilla kernel 2.6.24-rc3

2007-11-24 Thread cls
hich didn't work for me for kernel 2.6.23.8) > but it gave no error (when I fixed 2.6.23.8 to compile with gcc 4.3 it did > give > me similar error though) Udev is playing tricks on you. The kernel you compliled recognizes things in a different order, and udev gives them different nam

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