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

[T. Bryan]

On Tuesday 06 June 2006 00:05, T. Bryan wrote:

> > 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.

And that's when I saw /dev/md0 and my LVM logical volume on top of it mounted 
correctly.

> 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!

Nope.  Now that I can boot, I'm back to where I have to stop LVM, restart the 
RAID, and start LVM to get that working.  I'll go back to that as soon as I 
figure out KMail.

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

---Tom