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Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error



On 30 Jun 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:14:02AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > I just installed linux-image-2.6.25-2 from Sid. Boot fails with a
> > mwwage:
> > 
> > "target filesystem doesn't have bootarg" 
> > 
> > This is followed by:
> > "/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off"
> > 
> > 2.6.23 still boots normally. 
> > 
> > Google shows a number of people with similar problems, mainly on Ubuntu.
> > I also found a Debian recommendation to modify /etc/fstab in order to
> > get the file systems recognized, but I'm reluctant to do so for fear of
> > losing the ability to boot any kernel at all.
> > 
> > Any ideas about this one?
>  
> How large is your initrd? Assuming that you run lilo, you may be 
> experiencing
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479607
> 


No, I'm using grub.


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