Bug#457388: my guess is udev

[Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl>]

Op 06-01-2008 om 15:26 schreef Richard van der Veen:
> Again the kernel hangs with the message
> 
> Linux.........................................................................
> BIOS data check successful
> Uncompressing Linux...  OK, booting the kernel.
> PCI:BIOS BUG: MCFG area at f0000000 is not E820-reserved
> PCI: Not using MMCONFIG
> PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@90000000 for 0000:01:00.0
> Loading , please wait....
> ide0: I/O resource 0x3F6-0x3F6 not free.
> ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe
> ide1: I/O resource 0x376-0x376 not free.
> ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe
> mount: Mounting /dev/root on /root failed: No such device
> mount: Mounting /root/dev/ on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file or
> directory
> mount: Mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
> mount: Mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory
> Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init


When I do `grep -i mount /var/log/syslog` on an installed system,
I don't get a line like:
> mount: Mounting /dev/root on /root failed: No such device

What is '/dev/root'?
I would expect something like '/dev/sda1'

Why is it '/root'?
I would expect '/'


I think^Wguess there is still some bootloader data on some disk
(the computer has several disks) and that data is not overwritten
during install. The computer boots from the wrong disk.

Could that be checked?


Cheers
Geert Stappers