On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 10:24 +1000, mustard lee wrote: > lostson wrote: > > >On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 21:02 +1000, mustard lee wrote: > > > > > >>I put together a brand new Etch install today, which was working > >>flawlessly for the first few boots. I think I may have done an apt-get > >>upgrade prior to the last reboot and now its hanging on the startup with > >>the message 'waiting on root file system'. If I try recovery mode, its > >>the same. I've also tried noapic, nolapic, with no effect. Has anyone > >>heard of this error recently? I'm not at the computer atm, or I would > >>put in some more details like the kernel version. The best I can say is > >>it is the most current 'testing' 486 kernel, as I installed an updated > >>all this today. I suspect its something like 2.6.15.?-486. Any ideas > >>or comments would be appreciated. > >> > >>Chris L. > >> > >> > >> > >> > > I had this problem as well. When you do an upgrade make sure to upgrade > >udev as well. Initramfs-tools is the package that screws things up. > >Personally I think it should pull in udev as well, but it doesnt. So be > >sure to upgrade udev and it will eliminate this problem. > > > >LostSon > > > > > > > > > Thanks for the input on that. Googling around, I had started to think > the problem was initramfs-tools related, but I hadn't found a specific > course of action. I've been trying to think of how I'm going to get > into the system to fix it. I suppose the only way is to chroot in, and > upgrade udev that way? Would that be correct? > > Chris L.
chroot would be the easiest yes. LostSon > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
