Re: Etch hangs on startup at: waiting on root file system ?

[mustard lee <mustard_debian@iprimus.com.au>]

lostson wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 21:02 +1000, mustard lee wrote:
>  
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> > I put together a brand new Etch install today, which was working 
> > flawlessly for the first few boots.  I think  I may have done an apt-get 
> > upgrade prior to the last reboot and now its hanging on the startup with 
> > the message 'waiting on root file system'.  If I try recovery mode, its 
> > the same.  I've also tried noapic, nolapic, with no effect.  Has anyone 
> > heard of this error recently?  I'm not at the computer atm, or I would 
> > put in some more details like the kernel version.  The best I can say is 
> > it is the most current 'testing' 486 kernel, as I installed an updated 
> > all this today.  I suspect its something like 2.6.15.?-486.  Any ideas 
> > or comments would be appreciated.
> >
> > Chris L.
> >
> >
> >    
> I had this problem as well. When you do an upgrade make sure to upgrade
> udev as well. Initramfs-tools is the package that screws things up.
> Personally I think it should pull in udev as well, but it doesnt. So be
> sure to upgrade udev and it will eliminate this problem.
>
> LostSon
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>  
Thanks for the input on that.  Googling around, I had started to think 
the problem was initramfs-tools related, but I hadn't found a specific 
course of action.  I've been trying to think of how I'm going to get 
into the system to fix it.  I suppose the only way is to chroot in, and 
upgrade udev that way? Would that be correct?

Chris L.