Bug#499575: marked as done (linux-image-2.6-K7 Wait for root file system after upgrading from kernel 2.6.22 to 2.6-K7)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #499575,
regarding linux-image-2.6-K7 Wait for root file system after upgrading from kernel 2.6.22 to 2.6-K7
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Package: linux-image-2.6-K7
Version: 2.6.26+16
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6-K7 depends on:
ii linux-image-2.6-686 2.6.26+16 Linux 2.6 image on
PPro/Celeron/PI
linux-image-2.6-K7 recommends no packages.
linux-image-2.6-K7 suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
I know this is a bug often seen before, but there are a few things
different. I know about the problem that newer kernels consider hda => sda
etc. But I thought it was well before 2.6.22 that it happened.
I had a system running Etch with kernel 2.6.18. As a prelude to dist-upgrade
to Lenny I installed 2.6.22. This was not satisfactory as
kernel-headers-2.6-k7 is not installable.
When I upgraded from 2.6.22 to 2.6.26. The machine would
hang at "Waiting for root file system"
Then I replaced occurences to hdc1 with LABEL entries. This is the state of
the boot stanza in menu.lst and the relevant mount line in fstab:
--fstab:
LABEL=boot / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
--menu.lst
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-686
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=LABEL=boot ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
however, kernel 2.6.22 does boot with this stanza:
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.22-3-k7
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-3-k7 root=LABEL=boot ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-k7
--/boot/grub/device.map
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hdc
(hd1) /dev/hdd
For me that indicates that the LABEL statements are correct.
As general recommendation from Google finds I updated initramfs:
update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.26-1-686
This resulted in a /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686 with the timestampt of
updating.
I fear that since the machine is running kernel 2.6.22 at the time of
update-initramfs, the update still doesn't know about how to handle sdc
instead of hdc.
Until now I have not found a way to get this system to boot correctly. Since
it was a fairly standard kernel upgrade, nothing fancy, no custom kernels
etc, I believe this is a bug.
It surprised me as well that after installing the linux-image package, the
menu.lst was not automagically updated with the new kernel stanza. I did
that manually. Not sure whether that is a bug though.
jlinkels
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--- Begin Message ---
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 07:19:57PM -0400, J.L.H.W. Linkels wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6-K7
> Version: 2.6.26+16
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages linux-image-2.6-K7 depends on:
> ii linux-image-2.6-686 2.6.26+16 Linux 2.6 image on
> PPro/Celeron/PI
>
> linux-image-2.6-K7 recommends no packages.
>
> linux-image-2.6-K7 suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
> I know this is a bug often seen before, but there are a few things
> different. I know about the problem that newer kernels consider hda => sda
> etc. But I thought it was well before 2.6.22 that it happened.
>
> I had a system running Etch with kernel 2.6.18. As a prelude to dist-upgrade
> to Lenny I installed 2.6.22. This was not satisfactory as
> kernel-headers-2.6-k7 is not installable.
>
> When I upgraded from 2.6.22 to 2.6.26. The machine would
> hang at "Waiting for root file system"
>
> Then I replaced occurences to hdc1 with LABEL entries. This is the state of
> the boot stanza in menu.lst and the relevant mount line in fstab:
>
> --fstab:
> LABEL=boot / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
>
> --menu.lst
> title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-686
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=LABEL=boot ro
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
>
> however, kernel 2.6.22 does boot with this stanza:
> title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.22-3-k7
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-3-k7 root=LABEL=boot ro
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-k7
>
>
> --/boot/grub/device.map
> (fd0) /dev/fd0
> (hd0) /dev/hdc
> (hd1) /dev/hdd
>
>
> For me that indicates that the LABEL statements are correct.
>
> As general recommendation from Google finds I updated initramfs:
> update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.26-1-686
>
> This resulted in a /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686 with the timestampt of
> updating.
>
> I fear that since the machine is running kernel 2.6.22 at the time of
> update-initramfs, the update still doesn't know about how to handle sdc
> instead of hdc.
>
> Until now I have not found a way to get this system to boot correctly. Since
> it was a fairly standard kernel upgrade, nothing fancy, no custom kernels
> etc, I believe this is a bug.
>
> It surprised me as well that after installing the linux-image package, the
> menu.lst was not automagically updated with the new kernel stanza. I did
> that manually. Not sure whether that is a bug though.
>
> jlinkels
device names are not stable.
use UUID to rely on them.
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