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

[T. Bryan]

On Monday 05 June 2006 16:06, you wrote:
>  From my previous post...
>
> 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

Wow.  Thanks!  That got me into my system.

> Now I just need to figure out how to avoid busybox to begin with...

Ditto.  

> On a roll... After updating evms and udev the machine starts without
> ending up at busybox, but I do receive the following in dmesg:

I'm not using evms.  When I got into my system, just for good measure, I ran

apt-get --reinstall install udev

At the end of the install, I still got the following message:

/boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-1-486 has been altered.  Cannot update.

I followed Daniel's advice and tried update-initramfs -u, which gave the same 
error.  That lead me to the right man page and some googling.  I finally ran 
update-initramfs -k `uname -r` -t -u

That worked, and now I'm booting fine.  Thanks everyone!

I notice that my LVM on RAID seem to be loading at boot time, too.  Hooray!

Of course, now KMail is segfaulting when I try to start it.  /me sighs

Thanks for all of the suggestions,
---Tom