Why is it looking for /root/dev ?

[Karl Larsen]

On 05/01/2010 03:18 PM, Mike Yates wrote:
> I've upgraded my 9.10 to 10.04 on-line but it will only work with the
> older kernel (2.6.31-21) not 2.6.32-21, which locks up completely while
> attempting to start a recovery shell (busybox started but no prompt).
> Among the messages above that are three curious ones, failing to find
> /root/dev, /root/proc and /root/sys, also "no /sbin/init.007".
> As I said, switching to the older kernel, with all the same arguments on
> the same filesystem, works perfectly.
> Is the initrd corrupt?
> I've tried "apt-get install --reinstall linux-image-2.6.32-21-generic"
> to no avail.
>
> Does this give anyone here an immediate clue?
>
>    
     Yes it does. I will file this away with my collection of update 
failures. If you want to avoid this kind of failure, get a LiveCD and 
load it in a partition.

73 Karl


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