Bug#362631: linux-image-2.6.16-1: fails to mount root device
Package: linux-2.6
Version: 2.6.16-6
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
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The kernel seems to boot up normally, but then fails to mount the root device
with a message
"failed to mount root on /dev/hda8 - no such device"
according to dmesg logs I can see that hda gets initialised normally. I
could not find any errors related to the initalisation of the ide controller
or hard disk, either.
Booting the kernel without the initial ramdisk fails with a kernel panic.
The system used to work with version 2.6.16-5 or earlier. However, since the
last upgrade was done on April 3rd 2006, I cannot remember the exact version
of the linux-image package I upgraded from. Due to not having a backup
kernel installed, I had to re-install the box from scratch and lost all
apt/dpkg logfiles.
I tried booting the linux-image-2.6.16-1-686 instead but bot the same error.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-k7
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7 depends on:
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.59b tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.2.2-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7 recommends:
ii libc6-i686 2.3.6-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i
-- debconf information:
linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7/preinst/initrd-2.6.16-1-k7:
linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.16-1-k7:
linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.16-1-k7:
linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.16-1-k7: true
linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.16-1-k7:
linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.16-1-k7: true
linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.16-1-k7: true
linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.16-1-k7: false
linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.16-1-k7: true
linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.16-1-k7: true
linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.16-1-k7:
linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.16-1-k7: true
linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.16-1-k7: false
linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.16-1-k7: true
linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.16-1-k7: true
linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.16-1-k7: true
linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.16-1-k7: true
linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.16-1-k7:
linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7/preinst/abort-install-2.6.16-1-k7:
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