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Re: Error rebooting after upgrade from 2.6.12-i36 to 2.6.15-i686



Arnau Rebassa Villalonga wrote:
>    I've installed a new Dell poweredge 850 server with SCSCI disks
> formated as ext3 from a netinstall, it run smoothly and installed the
> 2.6.12-i386 kernel image. After the aptitude dist-upgrade, I upgraded
> the linux-image to the 2.6.15-686 and also to 2.6.15-686-smp (having
> with both the same result) and when I reboot the machine it displays the
> following errors:
> 
>    Alert! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
> 
>    /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
> 
> and a busybox shell appears. Anybody knows how to fix this?

I also have this problem and I also have root on a SCSI disk.
I guess this is something about this damn initramfs and an driver that does 
not get loaded.
Also udev shows LOTS of errors prior to that.

HS

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