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[upgrade 6.10 ->7.10] Alert! /dev/hda7 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!!

Bug #115088 reported by Xan on 2007-05-16

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ubuntu	Invalid	Undecided	Dennis Francis

Bug Description

I upgraded xubuntu from 6.06 to 6.10: no problem. So I pass from 2.6.15 kernel (6.06) to 2.6.17 (6.10)
After that, I upgraded xubuntu from 6.10 to 7.04: when upgrade-manager reboots and I load xubuntu, I get the standard BusyBox console and an error says me "/bin/sh: can't access tty: job control turned off"

In tty1 I had the following error: "mdadm: No devices listed in conf file were found. Check root=bootarg cat /proc/cmdline or missing modules, devices cat /proc/modules ls /dev
Alert!: dev/hda7 does not exist.
Dropping to shell!"

I consult Mr. Google and I found https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/32123 and I substituted the kernel 2.6.20-15-generic (of 7.04) and the corresponding initrd for the previous kernel and initrd (2.6.17 of 6.10) and now I can boot xubuntu

Can you confirm what kind of bug it's?

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Xan (dxpublica) wrote on 2007-05-16:

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dmesg Edit (28.1 KiB, text/plain)

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Xan (dxpublica) wrote on 2007-05-16:

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Xan (dxpublica) wrote on 2007-05-16:

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dmesg.1.gz Edit (6.7 KiB, application/octet-stream)

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Dennis Francis (dennisfrancis) wrote on 2007-05-18:

#4

Thanks for the report, Xan.
Could you attach the /etc/fstab file here ?

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Xan (dxpublica) wrote on 2007-05-20:

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fstab Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain)

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Xan (dxpublica) wrote on 2007-05-20:

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fstab.edgy Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain)

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Xan (dxpublica) wrote on 2007-05-20:

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fstab.pre-uuid Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain)

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Xan (dxpublica) wrote on 2007-05-20:

#8

These are all the /etc/fstab* I have.
Not of all,
Xan

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Xan (dxpublica) wrote on 2007-05-23:

#9

I suggest, after triage this bug, mark as important bug. It makes that no one "trust" in ubuntu updates between releases I think

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Xan (dxpublica) wrote on 2007-08-27:

#10

Do you need more info?
Please, tell me

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kmt (kmt-ftml) wrote on 2007-10-27:

#11

I got the same problem when updating from 6.06 -> 6.10 ->7.10. Gutsy's 2.6.22-14 386 fails into busybox shell after "Hmm, seems the drive doesn't support multisession CD's" and then "ALERT! /dev/md0 does not exist". Busybox does not see any /dev/md* or /dev/hd*.

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Przemek K. (azrael) wrote on 2009-12-15:

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Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The version of Ubuntu that you were using has reached its End Of Life. Please test the latest Ubuntu version (9.10) and report a new bug if necessary.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

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