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

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 15:28:10 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> 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.

The easiest way to rebuild an initrd for a given kernel is to run
dpkg-reconfigure on the corresponding linux-image-... package. This
should call an initrd generator as well as update-grub. You can do this
for the 2.6.25 kernel only, to make sure that you are not breaking the
working 2.6.23.

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