Bug#427045: linux-image-2.6.21-1-686: Cannot find root filesystem under VMWare Server 1.0.3
Package: linux-image-2.6.21-1-686
Version: 2.6.21-4
Severity: important
When booting this kernel reports that it cannot find the root
filesystem (/dev/sda1) and dumps me into a debug shell. I'm using EXT3
and the grub command looks correct (it looks the same as the line for
2.6.18-4-686). I am, however, able to run 2.6.18-4-686, it
finds /dev/sda1 with no problem.
I'm not running any odd kernel modules except for vmware's. I have
vmware tools installed from an older kernel (older than
2.6.18-4-686) so vmware reports my vmware tools as "out of date".
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.21-1-686 depends on:
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initr 0.88 tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre11-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.21-1-686 recommends:
ii libc6-i686 2.5-9+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i
-- debconf information:
shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.21-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.21-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.21-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.21-1-686: false
linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.21-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.21-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.21-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.21-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.21-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.21-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.21-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.21-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.21-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.21-1-686: false
linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.21-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.21-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.21-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.21-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.21-1-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.21-1-686: true
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