Can not boot after upgrade
Bug #43517 reported by
Peter Hopfgartner
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6-686
Machine (ASUS P2B-S, two IDE drives with software raid, XFS Filesystems) run ok until today (almost, except the missing symbols for Adaptec aic7xxx drivers).
Update with dselect as of today from linux-image-
Linux halts during boot with the following message:
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
RAMDISK: ran out of compressed data
invalid compressed format (err=1)
VFS: Cannot open root device "900" or unknown-block (9,0)
Kernel panic: Unable to mount root fs or unknown-block (9,0)
Regards,
Peter
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Could it be that you ran out of space in the /boot directory?
I use a separate boot partition, and it is too small, so now each time I need to update the kernel I must first move the init ram disk (which takes most of the space), otherwise I'm left with an unbootable state (apt deosn't get the error message from gunzip, and reports no installation error).
Always have a livecd at hand, or store a working kernel / etc. so that you can boot it manually in grub.