Re: Squeeze update => disk unbootable

[Frank Miles <fpm@u.washington.edu>]

Firstly, thanks Tom for asking about the udev version.  Since I
cannot boot the system I can't ask udev directly; however in
/var/cache/apt/archives, the only udev pkg is 164-3.

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I think I'm closer to understanding the problem.

To clear up one thing: the system is partway to grub-2.  The grub-2
chain completely bombs with a VFS... error.  Altering the grub-1
menu.lst is what I've seemed to get.  No matter what I do -
how I rephrase the disk reference, I get a
	VFS: Cannot open root device...
error.  From what I have gathered, this is probably due to my
using a custom-made kernel which is lacking in some key component
for booting with the new udev.  Unfortunately I don't have any
of the standard precompile kernels on the system, so it may be
a bit awkward at best.

Perhaps I can manually mount the drives as needed into a pseudo-root
partition {having booted a rescue disk}, and chroot into the boot
partition, and load the kernel deb from a USB drive?
That's my next attempt... if there's a better way I'd like to
hear about it.

Thanks all!  It's been a real learning experience...

	-f