On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 15:28:10 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 30 Jun 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 13:45:44 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > On 30 Jun 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:14:02AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > I just installed linux-image-2.6.25-2 from Sid. Boot fails with a > > > > > mwwage: > > > > > > > > > > "target filesystem doesn't have bootarg" > > > > > > > > > > This is followed by: > > > > > "/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off" > > > > > > > > > > 2.6.23 still boots normally. > > > > > > > > > > Google shows a number of people with similar problems, mainly on > > > > > Ubuntu. > > > > > I also found a Debian recommendation to modify /etc/fstab in order to > > > > > get the file systems recognized, but I'm reluctant to do so for fear > > > > > of > > > > > losing the ability to boot any kernel at all. > > > > > > > > > > Any ideas about this one? > > > > > > > > How large is your initrd? Assuming that you run lilo, you may be > > > > experiencing > > > > > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479607 > > > > > > No, I'm using grub. > > > > Uh-oh, speaking of initrds: I forgot that in my previous message; you > > should probably rebuild it if you change your fstab to labels or UUIDs. > > How do you do that? I changed to UUID and I got the same message with > 2.6.25 although 2.6.23 still boots normally. I don't know how you would > rebuilt initrds.
The easiest way to rebuild an initrd for a given kernel is to run dpkg-reconfigure on the corresponding linux-image-... package. This should call an initrd generator as well as update-grub. You can do this for the 2.6.25 kernel only, to make sure that you are not breaking the working 2.6.23. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]