Root device doesn't exist

["Dimitry Andric" <dim@xs4all.nl>]

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Hi,

I fear I'm having the same problem as Florian Zimmermann reported
previously. I've installed gnu-20000301.tar.gz (from the
alpha.gnu.org site) on a ext2fs partition called sdc2 (Linux
nomenclature) or sd2s2 (Mach nomenclature). I used mke2fs from Debian
2.2 with the "-O sparse_super -o hurd" options. This tarball worked
perfectly, and most of my hardware was detected properly.

I then upgraded via dselect to gnumach_1.2-5.deb, hurd_20000803.deb
and grub_0.5.95.deb (all from ftp.de.debian.org), and this results in
an error at boot time, just after the partitions are detected. It
says "root device sd2s2 does not exist!". Note that gnumach+hurd from
the initial tarball had no problems with this root device.

Could this be a bug which has crept into gnumach_1.2-5.deb or
hurd_20000803.deb, or maybe I'm not supposed to upgrade gnumach+hurd
via dselect? Or am I using a broken version of mke2fs?

Cheers,
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