Bug#425851: Processed: (no subject)

[Olaf van der Spek <Olaf@XWIS.Net>]

maximilian attems wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 01:05:06PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> > maximilian attems wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:34:59PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> > > > maximilian attems wrote:
> > > > > > I've installed 2.6.21 on two different VMware Workstation guests
> > > > > > running on two different hosts and both fail to boot.
> > > > > see  http://wiki.debian.org/InitramfsDebug
> > > > >
> > > > > thanks for more feedback
> > > > # ls -l /dev/[hs]da*
> > > > ls: /dev/[hs]da*: No such file or directory
> > > hmm that's bad,
> > > can you post dmesg output?
> > Do you want a screenshot of the last screen?
> > Or is there a better way?
>
> yeah cats are you friends, on the receiving side:
> nc -l -p 5555
>
> in the initramfs with correct ip of aboves host:
> dmesg | nc 10.0.0.5 5555

Network is unreachable.
I thought networking wasn't up at this point in the boot process?

>  
> > Yes, 2.6.20 works fine.

> also you can try out 2.6.22-rc6
> see trunk apt lines on
> -> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel


Begin: Waiting for root file system... ...
Done.
ALERT!  /dev/sda1 does not exist.  Dropping to a shell!

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