Public bug reported:
Hi, yesterday I updgraded my Ubuntu Lucyd Lynx from Beta 2 to Release Candidate
(eg. run update-manager by hand, auto-update doesn't work), it found many
packages to update and all run fine.
I upgraded to Lucyd Beta 2 last week from Ubuntu 9.10, Dell Vostro 1510 with
NVidia card.
I was using a vanilla kernel 2.6.33.1 recompiled by excluding all unnecessary
stuff, I also excluded initrd and compiled ext4 driver in the kernel. All was
fine, both with Ubuntu 9.10 and with Lucyd Beta 2.
But this morning, at the first boot after the update, when I selected at Grub
prompt my vanilla kernel after some seconds of Plymouth screen it appeared a
message stating that root partition (/) cannot be mounted and asking if I want
to solve the problem manually. I pressed "M" and a root console appeared. I saw
above some messages that udev logged while trying to mount partitions, it said
that root partition could not be mounted because "No such file or directory".
At the console, no sda devices (!!) where found under /dev/. My home directory
was not present, /home was empty, no hidden files where present. My home
directory is also encrypted.
I attach my fstab.
I don't know what else to attach, because no log files were generated, no
messages, no syslog, no kernel log.
What's happened with udev/udevd? Why it cannot mount my partitions anymore? And
why, if it said "cannot mount / partition", I was presented with a root console
with all my hard drive (except home directories)?
I think that there is some problem with that kernel, maybe because of the lack
of initrd.
If I choose Ubuntu 2.6.32 default kernel, with initrd support, all is fine,
system is up and running.
I then tried recompiling vanilla 2.6.33.1 including initrd, the compilation
went fine (make-kpkg), deb packages where generated, but when I run dkpg -i to
install them NO initrd image was generated in /boot, is that normal? Am I
forgetting something?
I will try recompiling "Gentoo-way" generating initrd image.
Let me know if you need something else.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Udev - cannot mount root on kernel 2.6.33
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571164
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