Re: After Sarge->Etch update: Computer doesn't boot. Wife unhappy.
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 09:06:31AM +0100, Daniel Haude wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After I did a sarge->etch update on the weekend the machine frequenty
> hangs during bootup with the message: waiting for root filesystem. All I
> can do is type "reboot" at the (initramfs) prompt, then it reboots and
> usually gets beyond that point.
>
> But of course now I'm in my office, and my wife called: Computer doesn't
> boot. She rebooted it no less than four times (including turning it off
> and on again), and it always hangs with that message. She needs to work
> from home, and my computer is the print server.
>
> Now we're both unhappy.
>
> What can have happened there?
Could it be assigning names (hda, hdc, sda, sdc, etc) differently at
different boots?
-- hendrik
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