Re: unbootable system after fresh 4.0r5 installation

2008-12-11 Thread Jukka Salmi
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. -- debian-user (2008-12-08 16:46:46 -0600): http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html Thanks, udev(7) is probably what I was looking for. I tried two approaches: 1) Using built-in persistent symlinks (/dev/disk/...). 2) Writing custom rules to create symlinks to

Re: unbootable system after fresh 4.0r5 installation

2008-12-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-11 12:50 +0100, Jukka Salmi wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. -- debian-user (2008-12-08 16:46:46 -0600): http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html Thanks, udev(7) is probably what I was looking for. I tried two approaches: 1) Using built-in persistent symlinks

Re: unbootable system after fresh 4.0r5 installation

2008-12-11 Thread Jukka Salmi
Sven Joachim -- debian-user (2008-12-11 13:02:54 +0100): Have you rebuilt your initramfs? Udev and the whole /etc/udev directory are copied into it, so you need to run update-initramfs -u to have these rules available at boot time. Thanks a lot, that was exactly what I was missing (hmm, I

Re: unbootable system after fresh 4.0r5 installation

2008-12-08 Thread Jukka Salmi
Jukka Salmi -- debian-user (2008-12-07 16:27:57 +0100): Hello, Sven Joachim -- debian-user (2008-12-05 17:54:56 +0100): On 2008-12-05 17:27 +0100, Jukka Salmi wrote: I just installed Debian 4.0r5 on a i386 systems (Dell PowerEdge 2950). While the installer seemed to have succeeded

Re: unbootable system after fresh 4.0r5 installation

2008-12-08 Thread Jukka Salmi
Chris Davies -- debian-user (2008-12-05 18:15:12 +): I've also come across this, and it seems only to affect DELL 2950s. I've not logged a bug because I couldn't work out /where/ (i.e. which package) I should log it against. You need to boot a Rescue CD [*] and change all occurrences of

Re: unbootable system after fresh 4.0r5 installation

2008-12-08 Thread Chris Davies
Jukka Salmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, is sda this Virtual Floppy? What's this? And what's a Virtual CDROM? The Virtual CD and Floppy are controlled via the Remote Access Controller (DRAC). The DELL Remote Access Console (DRAC) allows a suitably privileged user to view and interact with

Re: unbootable system after fresh 4.0r5 installation

2008-12-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-08 12:12 +0100, Jukka Salmi wrote: Hmm, this is a little bit scary because I don't understand how the kernel choses the order of attaching devices. This is a general problem with both SCSI and USB, AFAIK: the order is almost random. Can this be made static somehow? I.e. can I

Re: unbootable system after fresh 4.0r5 installation

2008-12-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 2008 December 08 15:41:54 Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-12-08 12:12 +0100, Jukka Salmi wrote: Can this be made static somehow? I.e. can I somehow configure the kernel to always recognise the SCSI RAID controller as scsi0? Maybe we have a udev expert on this list that knows how to

Re: unbootable system after fresh 4.0r5 installation

2008-12-07 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hello, Sven Joachim -- debian-user (2008-12-05 17:54:56 +0100): On 2008-12-05 17:27 +0100, Jukka Salmi wrote: I just installed Debian 4.0r5 on a i386 systems (Dell PowerEdge 2950). While the installer seemed to have succeeded without problems, the freshly installed system didn't boot

unbootable system after fresh 4.0r5 installation

2008-12-05 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hello, I just installed Debian 4.0r5 on a i386 systems (Dell PowerEdge 2950). While the installer seemed to have succeeded without problems, the freshly installed system didn't boot because its root file systems could not be found: Begin: Waiting for root file system... ... [...]

Re: unbootable system after fresh 4.0r5 installation

2008-12-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-05 17:27 +0100, Jukka Salmi wrote: I just installed Debian 4.0r5 on a i386 systems (Dell PowerEdge 2950). While the installer seemed to have succeeded without problems, the freshly installed system didn't boot because its root file systems could not be found: Begin: Waiting

Re: unbootable system after fresh 4.0r5 installation

2008-12-05 Thread Chris Davies
Jukka Salmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed Debian 4.0r5 on a i386 systems (Dell PowerEdge 2950). Begin: Waiting for root file system... ... sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb At this point the system hanged for some minutes, until ALERT! /dev/sdb3

Re: unbootable system after fresh 4.0r5 installation

2008-12-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 06:15:12PM +, Chris Davies wrote: Jukka Salmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed Debian 4.0r5 on a i386 systems (Dell PowerEdge 2950). Begin: Waiting for root file system... ... sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb At this point

Re: unbootable system after fresh 4.0r5 installation

2008-12-05 Thread Dirk Vervoort
Alex Samad wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 06:15:12PM +, Chris Davies wrote: Jukka Salmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed Debian 4.0r5 on a i386 systems (Dell PowerEdge 2950). Begin: Waiting for root file system... ... sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi

Re: unbootable system after fresh 4.0r5 installation

2008-12-05 Thread Chris Davies
Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maybe the best thing to do is change to using labels or UUID's ? I'm not aware of any way to get the installer to do that. There is an underlying problem here, though, whereby the installer discovers and uses sdb when in fact it should be referencing sda.