Re: Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-16 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
Vidar Langseid wrote: Hi In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: [snip upgrade instructions] Thanks for posting your experience! I am sure it will be useful to others. You could have a debate about whether this is an installer bug, a kern

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-16 Thread Vidar Langseid
Hi > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > > [snip upgrade instructions] > > > > Thanks for posting your experience! I am sure it will be useful to > > others. > > > >> You could have

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:14:18AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 09:14:44PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > it turns out you can do a reasonable amount of stuff in that busybox > > shell and if the system is close to booting, you can get it to > > go. What I w

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 09:14:44PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > it turns out you can do a reasonable amount of stuff in that busybox > shell and if the system is close to booting, you can get it to > go. What I was missing, and desperately wanted, was some kind of text > editor. I ended

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 02:38:36AM +, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > I've had to learn my > > way around that having just reconfigured my laptop. The critical item > > is the contents of $ROOT. The value of $ROOT gets set by the k

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-02 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 03:33:06PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> > Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: [ when I upgraded Etch to Lenny, device names changed and the Lenny kernel

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 03:33:06PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > > > Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > > [snip upgrade instructions] > > > > Thanks for posting your experience! I

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-02 Thread cls
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > [snip upgrade instructions] > > Thanks for posting your experience! I am sure it will be useful to others. > >> You could have a debate about whether

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: [snip upgrade instructions] Thanks for posting your experience! I am sure it will be useful to others. > You could have a debate about whether this is an installer > bug, a kernel package bug, a udev bug, or operator error.

"Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-01 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
I googled for the answer and didn't find it, and lots of people asking, so this is for the next person with the same problem. I installed a Debian Etch workstation, tasksel: desktop, guided partitioning, the six partitions (/ /usr /var /home /tmp swap) way. Works great. I upgraded to Lenny, the O