Upgrade 8.04->9.10 fails: crash to tty, claims can't mount rootfs

[Dexter Filmore]

Am Sonntag, 8. November 2009 18:09:18 schrieb Tom H:
> >>> So today I finally decided to upgrade to 9.10 from 8.04.
> >>> Now after rebooting the system crashed to a maintenance shell
> >>> claiming the system wasn't able to mount the root fs.
> >>> Funny thing here: / was mounted. could perfectly dive into the
> >>> system, run programs and so on. Perfectly mounted.
> >>
> >> Did you check that you really have your disk partitions mounted? The
> >
> > Yes, the mounted / was the real deal as I could access my custom files
> > and as you stated below menu.lst and everything else. mount was sda6
> > which is supposed to be my / disk. No seperate /boot partition in here.
>
> Do you see all your partitions when you run "ls /dev//dev/sda*" after
> "Dropping to a shell"?

See original post.

>
> Poking around my initrd, it looks like your "ALERT! ... Dropping to a
> shell!" message comes from the initrd script that mounts /. The output
> between "ALERT" and "Dropping" is what initrd's init script thinks
> your / is. Is it correct?

Not reproduceable since I overwrote the broken system with backups.

>
> The init script in initrd gets /'s location from the menu.lst kernel.
> Check that the UUID in "root=UUID=..." is correct or change it to
> "root=/dev/sd..." (with an "e" at the grub menu) and boot.

See original post.

>
> > Thanks for the grub(2) and runlevel info btw.
>
> You're welcome.



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