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Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2



Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 20:06:48 +0200:
> Philipp Überbacher <hollunder@lavabit.com> writes:
> 
> > The system waits for the root file system for a while and then drops
> > into a shell with the (initramfs) prompt.
> >
> > There's no /dev/sd* or /dev/disk for some reason.
> 
> A few weeks ago I found that I was suddenly unable to boot a
> self-compiled kernel after making a change to only one option which
> wouldn't affect booting at all. The kernel couldn't find the root fs and
> after some waiting put me into an emergency shell. Apparently the lvm
> volumes the root fs resides on were unavailable for unknown reasons.
> 
> Fortunately, kernels from Debian packages still boot. I haven't found a
> solution other than to run stock kernels yet. The only thing I could
> find out is that it eventually has something to do with the initramfs
> not being built correctly by the update-initramfs tool.

Thanks lee, I think I saw a bug report regarding your problem. However,
in my case no LVM is involved. Could it be that the initramfs is messed
up for some reason?


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