FS#10258 - kernel2.6.25 Couldn't mount root /dev/sda4

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Bob Fanger (NebyGemini) - Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 13:55 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Saturday, 11 October 2008, 21:10 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture i686
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Problems while booting up.
Couldn't mount root /dev/sda4

This happens on normal boot and on fallback boot.
no drives/partitions are shown in /dev

Hardware:
MacBook Pro 4.1
Sata controller: Intel ICH8-M AHCI

Additional info:
* package version(s)
kernel2.6.25-1


Steps to reproduce:
Upgrade to kernel2.6.25-1 and reboot
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Saturday, 11 October 2008, 21:10 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Gavin Bisesi (Daenyth) - Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 17:20 GMT
Post your fstab please
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 12:54 GMT
Also please post "bzcat /boot/kernel26.img | cpio -t"
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 13:00 GMT
It's 'zcat', not 'bzcat'.
Comment by Ricardo Martins (meqif) - Monday, 26 May 2008, 12:32 GMT
This happened to me too, but only when I compiled my own kernel using the PKGBUILD and config of the "official" kernel26-ARCH (+ macintel patches, which unfortunately for me weren't included in this release). I just cp'ed the kernel26 dir from /var/abs, added a patch and makepkg'd.

This didn't happen when I installed kernel26-2.6.25.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz from the repos. I'm using x86_64, btw.

I'm sure I'm missing something, since this happened too some time ago when I built (vanilla) 2.6.25-rc?? also using the Arch kernel config.
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Monday, 26 May 2008, 12:49 GMT
From the original post, I thought it might be due to the missing mactel patches, but from the last post, it looks like adding the mactel patches breaks it.

I think it might be broken initramfs image, but I have no information that could confirm that.
Comment by Ricardo Martins (meqif) - Monday, 26 May 2008, 13:05 GMT
I believe it isn't, since it happened too without the patches.
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Sunday, 05 October 2008, 16:27 GMT
any status update on this?
Comment by Bob Fanger (NebyGemini) - Wednesday, 08 October 2008, 14:18 GMT
I just reinstalled arch, rebooted (no problems there)
Installed all updates. rebooted and booting is problematic. I HAVE TO insert a CD during the boot process otherwise it will hang during boot.

Although i'm still experiencing buggy behavior, this bug "Couldn't mount root /dev/sda4" should be closed.

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