Re: Installing Wheezy on DreamPlug: Unable to make the system bootable

[Paul Kocialkowski <contact@paulk.fr>]

Le dimanche 01 septembre 2013 à 00:05 +0200, Paul Kocialkowski a écrit :
> Well, it turns out my guess was the right one! I enabled ssh on the
> installation and monitored syslog as the installation went and I found
> the following message:
> 
> Aug 31 21:54:52 in-target: update-initramfs:
> Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-kirkwood
> Aug 31 21:54:57 in-target: UUID 55794117-e5d0-47e5-b371-9ed10ee4ad2c
> doesn't exist in /dev/disk/by-uuid
> Aug 31 21:54:57 in-target: Warning: root
> device /dev/disk/by-uuid/55794117-e5d0-47e5-b371-9ed10ee4ad2c does not
> exist
> Aug 31 21:54:57 in-target: 
> Aug 31 21:54:57 in-target: Press Ctrl-C to abort build, or Enter to
> continue
> 
> I get this from ssh:
> /dev/disk/by-uuid # ls
> 34c362d5-e3ae-43f2-ad77-4571c33f3694
> 40c127f5-f54c-4e85-9248-97ec447efc8
> 
> This situation should not happen, it should instead properly display an
> error message to the user, or silently die, but not this.
> 
> Running "udevadm trigger" brings the expected UUID, so I think there is
> a problem somewhere in the partitioner tool since it doesn't
> refresh /dev/disk/by-uuid after making an ext2 partition (but it
> probably does it for ext3).
> 
> So finally, I was able to complete my installation with ext2!

Sidenote: I am currently installing Wheezy on my SheevaPlug (with ext2)
and the exact same issue occurs!