[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]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 12:34:11AM -0200, 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.

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