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Bug#783620: initramfs-tools: initramfs broken on first boot into Jessie, "Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0, 0)"



On Tue, 2015-04-28 at 21:39 +0200, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have tried two times to send the screenshot to this bug, but it was
> always eaten (delivered to @bugs.debian.org, but never made it to the
> BTS). I have put it online at
> http://users.birkenwald.de/~berni/volatile/783620.png
> 
> Note that there is a bit of local integration work in these systems (a
> few additional packages, and the upgrade procedure switches from the
> legacy VMware tools to open-vm-tools), but nothing that deep that should
> affect initramfs. Also 90% of the upgrades go through without any issues.
> 
> And the initrd content is binary-identical, so ...

This is a kernel panic, which usually means the initramfs wasn't loaded
at all.

Which boot loader is used on this system?  GRUB or something else?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. - Leonard Brandwein

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