Breezy Badger milestone release "Colony 3" now available

Martin Alderson martinalderson at gmail.com
Thu Aug 18 12:30:02 CDT 2005


On 8/18/05, Jeffrey W. Baker <jwbaker at acm.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 15:56 +0100, Martin Alderson wrote:
> > On 8/18/05, Martin Alderson <martinalderson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I had the same problem upgrading Hoary --> Breezy via apt-get. I
> > > didn't investigate further and used VMWare's snapshot feature to roll
> > > back and I'm sticking on Hoary for a while longer until this is fixed.
> > >
> >
> > Ok, curiosity got the better of me and I downloaded the image and
> > installed onto a fresh virtual machine.
> >
> > Install went fine - however, as soon as I rebooted, I get the
> > /dev/sda2 does not exist message. It then dropped me to a shell.. and
> > then the kernel panicked.
> >
> > I think there could be a major bug in Breezy, because I never had a
> > problem like this on Warty or Hoary.
> 
> FWIW, I have exactly the same problem.  I was tracking Breezy, but it
> was necessary to revert to Hoary a week ago when this started.  I
> believe the culprit is the new LVM procedure in the initrd/initramfs,
> and the way it interacts with LILO.
> 
> I investigated the problem from within busybox, and what happens is the
> scripts are trying to mount the root volume using the rdev number as the
> name.  So, in my case, where I have a disk that would normally be sda4
> (block device 8,4) the init was panicking if it couldn't find /dev/804
> or an LV named "804".  Strangely, the kernel command line
> (/proc/cmdline) included "root=804" regardless of the fact that the real
> command line was root=/dev/sda4.
> 
> After removing LILO and installing GRUB this problem stopped.  So
> perhaps there is a hidden dependency in Breezy which requires GRUB.
> 
> -jwb

I'm using GRUB. I can't use busybox at all since it kernel panics as
soon as it drops to a shell.

I'm using a standard VMWare virtual machine to install onto. It is a
SCSI disk that it emulates so I get sda2 instead of hda2.



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