Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error
On 30 Jun 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 13:45:44 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Uh-oh, speaking of initrds: I forgot that in my previous message; you
> should probably rebuild it if you change your fstab to labels or UUIDs.
>
How do you do that? I changed to UUID and I got the same message with
2.6.25 although 2.6.23 still boots normally. I don't know how you would
rebuilt initrds.
Anthony
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