upgrade from edgy leads to unbootable system
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Michael Vogt |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
Yesterday I upgraded an edgy system to feisty using "update-manager -d".
It all went smooth except that after rebooting the kernel wouldn't mount my ext3 root filesystem. I found out that kernel 2.6.20 wasn't installed after the upgrade and neither was the initramfs, so no ext3 support. Message was:
unable to mount root fs on unkown-block(0,0).
The problem was easy to fix by burning the feisty beta iso and copy the kernel and /lib/modules from there to my rootfs, chroot into it and run update-grub.
Anyway, it would be nice to not ask the user to reboot UNLESS there is a working kernel image and initramfs installed.
Don't know if this is really a problem with update-manager, but it's a problem indeed.
There's nothing special with my root filesystem, it's plain ext3, no lvm or raid involved.
Changed in update-manager: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Thanks for your bugreport.
Please attach the logs from /var/log/ dist-upgrade/ so that we can diagnose the problem.
Thanks,
Michael