Bug#343042: [Yaird-devel] Bug#343042: linux-image-2.6.14-2-686: Boot aborts with message '/bin/cat: /sys/block/hda/hda1/dev: No such file or directory'

Erik van Konijnenburg ekonijn at xs4all.nl
Mon Dec 12 06:18:30 UTC 2005


On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 04:33:29AM +0100, Cesare Leonardi wrote:
> Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote:
> > Package: linux-image-2.6.14-2-686
> > Version: 2.6.14-5
> > Severity: critical
> > Justification: breaks the whole system
> > 
> > Right after I upgraded linux-image-2.6.14-2-686 to 2.6.14-5 and rebooted, boot 
> > is interrupted with repeated messages:
> > 
> > /bin/cat: /sys/block/hda/hda1/dev: No such file or directory
> > 
> > until it finally stops completely, with message:
> > 
> > Device /sys/block/hda/hda1/dev seems to be down
> > 
> > I'm having to reboot with 2.6.12.
> 
> This happened to me too.
> I followed more or less the same steps as Paulo:
> - upgrade linux-image-2.6.14-2-686 from 2.6.14-4 to 2.6.14.5;
> - fail to reboot with the error messages above that appears 4 times with 
> increasing delay, saying: "Waiting X second for /sys/block/hda/dev to 
> show up";
> - reboot with kernel 2.4.27 then download and install
> linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 to have a system fully functional.

To help pin down the cause, could you post the output of:

        uname -a
	dpkg -l yaird
	yaird -v -o crap.img 2.6.14-2-686
	yaird -v -o crap.img 2.6.14-5-686

(assuming these are the last kernel that boots and the first that works)

Thanks,
Erik





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