Bug#480637: linux-image-amd64 - waiting for root filesystem

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Mon, 12 May 2008, Angelo Puglisi wrote:

> The old initramfs was created by yaird and is the little one.
> The new initramfs was created by initramfs-tools but it still don't work.
> Waiting for root filesystem is the failure of last initramfs.

that is *not* the failure just the symptom.

check out
http://wiki.debian.org/InitramfsDebug


> yaird made initramfs is lots of lines of:
> /sys/block/hda/dev: No such file or directory
> and after that a kernel panic.
> It's obvious that I do not have logs because of the disk is not found.
> 
> Here the output of ls -l /boot as you asked:

looks fine

most probably your root device got renamed from hda to sda,
please double check the *last* messages initramfs-tools gives
you when throwing you to console with lower rootdelay value.

-- 
maks