[TriLUG] Debian won't boot after dist-upgrade; udev problems?

[Daniel T. Chen]

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T. Bryan wrote:
> Now, when my system boots, I get 
> /dev/hda2 does not exist!  Dropping to a shell!

If Debian is now using initramfs for the 2.6 kernels, then it's possible
that the initramfs image wasn't regenerated correctly. The presence of
an 'initramfs-tools' package in your dpkg database would confirm this
usage (``dpkg -l initramfs-tools |grep ^ii'').

[snip]
> I'm still seeing the same error and being dropped inot a BusyBox shell on 
> boot.  Did anyone else see a similar type of error recently with Debian 
> testing?  Or does Debian just hate me?

Being dropped to a busybox-initramfs shell is likely an initramfs
mismatch problem (i.e., last I checked the initrds -- which differ from
initramfses -- don't have this functionality by default). You'd
``update-initramfs -u''.

Thanks,
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Daniel T. Chen            crimsun at ubuntu.com
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