Bug#360893: udev takes too long to create /dev/hda... and system drops to a shell

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

On Thu, 06 Apr 2006, Nicola Manini wrote:

> > please try out the unstable initramfs-tools version 0.59b
> 
> I did: complete disaster.
> 
> After the udev checks, the scrips come up with a message "Waiting for the
> root filesystem" or something of that kind.  Except that, afterwards, the
> /dev/hd* entries are never generated. Of course, after a few minutes the
> scripts drop out to a shell, but further waiting/exiting does not help.  I
> left the computer up all night, with no success.

sure the rescue shell can't fix itself magically ;)

please post from the busybox shell:
* the last line of messages you see
* cat /proc/cmdline
* cat /proc/modules
 
> So, I decided I had better go back to initramfs-tool 0.53c , but that also
> wouldn't help!  I even forced a purge of both udev and initramfs-tool and
> reinstalled them, but the unbootability of kernel 2.6.15  persists!

 
before rebooting check that fstype recognises your root fs:
# /usr/lib/klibc/bin/fstype < /dev/hda1


regards

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maks