Re: [gNewSense-users] I am unable to boot from vmlinuz-2.6.33.3-libre-lemote since upgrade

[Sam Geeraerts]

Christophe Jarry wrote:
> > The rootfs entries are interesting. I believe they are used by initrd, 
> > but should be overwritten by proper /dev entries later in the boot process.
>
> Maybe are they not overwritten because I use UUID to boot.

I don't see it when booting with UUID.

> > So the kernels see the partitions, but .33.3 doesn't have the device 
> > files. Then I think there's some problem with udev. Check the output of 
> > "udevinfo --export-db" with both kernels to know if udev sees your disk.
>
> For both kernels:
>
>     $ sudo udevinfo --export-db
>     bash: udevinfo: command not found
>
> and `apt-cache search udevinfo` gives no output.

Ah, udevinfo used to be an alias for udevadm. So try "sudo udevadm info 
--export-db" instead.

> > Also see if you can find your partitions in /dev/disk/.
>
> Under 2.6.33.3:
>
>     $ ls /dev/disk -l
>     ls: cannot access /dev/disk: No such file or directory

So udev and that kernel don't get along, but I don't know why.