[TriLUG] Problem with Debian Etch

[Nick]

Nick wrote:

> Steven Blanchard wrote:
>
>> On 5/27/06, Nick <trilug at dogstar1.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey everyone, I have been having a problem with Etch and was wondering
>>> if anyone else has run into this issue?
>>>
>>> After updating the initial install, the boot process hangs at "Begin:
>>> waiting for root file system"
>>>
>>> I have repeated the install twice with the same results. Upon searching
>>> for answers the only thing I found is the following:
>>>
>>>         I edited the file "/etc/kernel-img.conf" to add the line:
>>>         ramdisk = /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird
>>>         And then regenerated the initrd image.
>>>         dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.16-1-amd64-8-smp
>>>         And I could boot. It seems this is an error while creating
>>>         the initrd image.
>>>
>>> As this situation stretches my limited abilities I tried following 
>>> these
>>> directions (dubious as they look to me) by using Knoppix but I was
>>> unsuccessful.
>>>
>>> Any feedback would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>>
>> Does your computer have SATA?  I ran into similar problems at work
>> with a machine.  The problem was that under sarge's kernel the SATA
>> drive showed up as regular IDE (hda). With the newer kernel in etch,
>> SATA shows up as a scsi device (sda).  To boot, I had to update the
>> fstab and grub.conf by hand.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> ~Steven
>
>
> I have found a workaround for this issue however it is not a fix. If 
> you get: "ALERT! /dev/hda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell." after 
> upgrading Etch you can do the following.
>
> 1. Wait for busybox shell
> 2. modprobe ide-disk
> 3. ctrl-d
>
> Now I just need to figure out how to avoid busybox to begin with...
>
> Nick
>
>
On a roll... After updating evms and udev the machine starts without 
ending up at busybox, but I do receive the following in dmesg:

device-mapper: dm-linear: Device lookup failed
device-mapper: error adding target to table

I do not know if it was there prior to the upgrade.

Hope this helps.

Nick