| 2006-10-20 22:40:46 |
Christopher Armstrong |
bug |
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added bug |
| 2006-10-20 23:11:50 |
Timothy Smith |
None: statusexplanation |
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| 2006-10-20 23:48:18 |
Ben Collins |
linux-source-2.6.17: statusexplanation |
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Please go ahead and attach the problematic initrd.gz to this bug report.
Thanks |
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| 2006-10-21 19:30:24 |
Christopher Armstrong |
bug |
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added attachment 'initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic' (initrd that doesn't boot) |
| 2006-10-28 15:23:42 |
Matt Zimmerman |
initramfs-tools: assignee |
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keybuk |
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| 2006-10-28 15:23:42 |
Matt Zimmerman |
initramfs-tools: statusexplanation |
Please go ahead and attach the problematic initrd.gz to this bug report.
Thanks |
Scott, this sounds like the problem you were describing last week regarding the sort order used by update-initramfs. |
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| 2007-02-14 15:25:50 |
Scott James Remnant (Canonical) |
initramfs-tools: assignee |
keybuk |
ubuntu-kernel-team |
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| 2007-02-14 15:25:50 |
Scott James Remnant (Canonical) |
initramfs-tools: statusexplanation |
Scott, this sounds like the problem you were describing last week regarding the sort order used by update-initramfs. |
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| 2007-10-17 18:15:17 |
Uphaar Agrawalla |
initramfs-tools: status |
New |
Confirmed |
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| 2007-12-21 13:12:17 |
Uphaar Agrawalla |
title |
"-generic" kernel doesn't boot after upgrade to Edgy prerelease (but -386 does) |
"-generic" kernel doesn't boot in Gutsy on some occasions, freezes at the splash screen and then drops to initramfs prompt |
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| 2007-12-21 13:48:02 |
Matt Zimmerman |
description |
My system profile is here, according to a tool on my computer: http://hwdb.ubuntu.com/?xml=1f04acee99d97fae095286849a50f8c0
I just upgraded my dapper workstation to the Edgy prerelease, which installed both linux-image-2.6.17-10-386 and linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic. The 386 one boots fine but doesn't enable SMP, so I tried selecting the -generic kernel from the GRUB menu.
The regular -generic option causes my screen to blank and display only a blinking cursor; there are no Linux kernel bootup messages (and of course no expected splash screen). I didn't wait for very long (say, two minutes), but I saw no hard drive activity according to the LEDs.
Selecting the recovery version of the -generic kernel started what seemed to be a normal recovery bootup process, until it got to this part:
Begin: Mounting root file system... ...
Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ...
[[timestamp]] hda: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-716A [...]
[[timestamp]] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
cat: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf: No such file or directory.
Done.
Begin: Waiting for the root file system... ...
At this point, something between two and five minutes passed. Then more output followed:
Done.
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/ad313939-c7a7-447c-8591-79210c820840 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-2ubuntu3) Built-in shell (ash)
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
(initramfs)
Typing "ls /dev/disk" then said
ls: /dev/disk: No such file or directory.
"ls /dev" does show a bunch of stuff, so at least that directory exists.
I can live with the -386 kernel for now, but it is bewildering that it would work and -generic wouldn't.
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This report and its comments describe symptoms of a problem wherein the root filesystem is not mounted after a kernel upgrade.
It is unlikely that they share a common cause, and further analysis is needed to isolate the problem(s). |
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| 2007-12-21 13:48:02 |
Matt Zimmerman |
title |
"-generic" kernel doesn't boot in Gutsy on some occasions, freezes at the splash screen and then drops to initramfs prompt |
Failure to mount root filesystem, cause unknown |
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| 2013-05-09 17:54:05 |
Phillip Susi |
initramfs-tools (Ubuntu): status |
Confirmed |
Invalid |
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