Bug#352700: can't boot with 2.6.15-1-686 kernel : "/scripts/init-premount/udev : 21 : udevd : not found

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Florian Iragne wrote:

> maximilian attems a écrit :
> > with latest udev for some reason ide-generic doesn't get loaded
> > please try to modprobe ide-generic,
> > boot should continue then.
> > 
> > you should also be able to add it in /etc/mkinitramfs/modules
> > 
> > thanks for your feedback.
> 
> both idea didn't work
> 
> i still got the error message about udev ide.agent, can't continue
> normal boot process
> 
> Florian

those error messages are harmless they were surpressed until shortly
by udev. no they are not pretty

please provide the last error messages you see when getting dropped
into the shell.

also from there the output of:
cat /proc/cmdline
cat /proc/modules

and check if your root device is there ls /dev/hda4 or whatever..

-- 
maks