In the meantime, I also made some additional tests about this issue.
Jessie with default partitioning: I completely wiped out the MBR with zeros and allowed the installer to use a default partition layout. Result is exactly the same, i.e. the "A start job is running for dev-mapper-isw_djiacbdbae_VolLxDebx device". I extracted the "journalctl -xb" output at
http://beilagen.dreael.ch/Diverses/Details_Debian_8_Jessie_20151130/journalctl.txtFor completeness, I also tested the new Debian 9 Stretch release on the same hardware and same configuration. Results and details see
http://beilagen.dreael.ch/Diverses/Details_Debian_9_Stretch_20151207/i.e. installation works fine but the first boot fails with exactly the same behaviour.
I then made a third test with Debian 7 Wheezy (the oldstable distribution): There I got my system working successfully but I had to do the following corrections:
/etc/fstab: There is an extra "p" which must be removed, i.e./dev/mapper/isw_djiacbdbae_VolLxDebp1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/mapper/isw_djiacbdbae_VolLxDebp9 /home ext4 defaults 0 2 /dev/mapper/isw_djiacbdbae_VolLxDebp8 /tmp ext4 defaults 0 2 /dev/mapper/isw_djiacbdbae_VolLxDebp5 /usr ext4 defaults 0 2 /dev/mapper/isw_djiacbdbae_VolLxDebp6 /var ext4 defaults 0 2
must be changed into/dev/mapper/isw_djiacbdbae_VolLxDeb1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/mapper/isw_djiacbdbae_VolLxDeb9 /home ext4 defaults 0 2 /dev/mapper/isw_djiacbdbae_VolLxDeb8 /tmp ext4 defaults 0 2 /dev/mapper/isw_djiacbdbae_VolLxDeb5 /usr ext4 defaults 0 2 /dev/mapper/isw_djiacbdbae_VolLxDeb6 /var ext4 defaults 0 2
And of course, modifying /etc/default/grub (enabling GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true) and "update-grub" is also necessary from the emergency system to get the system booting successfully.
Then I tried out a dist-upgrade from 7 (Wheezy) to 8 (Jessie). Result: The "apt-get dist-upgrade" step will fail with a
Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64_3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6_amd64.debE: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)Complete details seehttp://beilagen.dreael.ch/Diverses/Details_Debian_7to8_Upgrade_20151207/The complete upgrade process is documented inUpgrading_Wheezy2Jessie_x64_ThinkCentreM57_fakeraid.txtA reboot results in a kernel panic (P1330209_KernelPanic_Deb7to8.JPG) => Invar_log_komplett.tgz I collected all logs for deep analysis before.Conclusion: There must be a general problem with dmraid affecting all newerversions based on systemd. Andreas--meile.biz IT solutions, Hauptstrasse 63, CH-8242 Hofen SHPC/Netzwerk-Support, Web-Entwicklung und -HostingTel. +41 52 640 04 72 * Fax +41 52 640 04 73 * Mobile +41 79 334 05 67Postfach 169, CH-8240 Thayngen * i...@meile.biz * http://www.meile.biz
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