Bug#535538: upgrade-reports: Upgrading the kernel impossible when hda is redirected to hde
Hello,
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 08:26:07AM +0200, Micronius wrote:
> Package: upgrade-reports
> Severity: grave
> Tags: security
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> When I enter
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade
By the way, note that the release-notes recommends to "aptitude update;
aptitude, upgrade, aptitude dist-upgrade":
http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#aptupgrade1st
> this does work for almost all packages but not for upgrading the kernel. Instead
> of using my own /grub/menu.lst the upgrade-procedure uses its own commands,
> especially
> "kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64 root=LABEL=wg-bootpart ro quiet
> [Linux-bzImage ... ]"
> The following messages appear after apt-get dist-upgrade:
It may be related to udev.
The release-notes have a specifi chapter about the kernel upgrade at
http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#newkernel
It assumes udev and initramfs are present, and give some example of
device enumeration reordering.
Were both of these tools
> "
> Booting the kernel
> .........
> Loading, please wait ...
>
> mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: no such file or directory
> [The same errors concerning /sys and /proc]
>
> Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init.
> No init found.
> ..........
> "
> Then the system halts and does not work further.
Thanks for your feedback and best regards.
--
Simon Paillard
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