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

[John Schmidt <john.schmidt@utah.edu>]

On Friday 24 February 2006 04:37, Arnau Rebassa Villalonga wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>    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?
>
> Regards
> --
> Arnau


Try this:

1.  Have the latest udev in unstable
2.  Have the latest grub in unstable (assume you are using grub).
3.  Boot into 2.6.12 kernel and then do this:
	dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.15-686

4.  Try and boot into linux-image.2.6.15

John