Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2
Philipp Überbacher <hollunder@lavabit.com> writes:
> 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?
The initramfs image for a particular kernel comes in a Debian package
with the kernel, doesn't it? If generating the images were to produce
broken images, wouldn't there be quite a few people having similar
problems? I really don't know ...
What if you install a more recent kernel from a rescue system?
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