[Yaird-devel] Bug#337293: Kernel panic on changing partition numbers

[ingo wagener]

Hi,

while changing my partitions around on Lenny (2.6.18-5-k7) this old stuff came 
back to haunt me - apparently it is not totally sorted. 

My root partition is on sda11 while home is on sda5. sda6 was empty so I 
deleted and grew sda5 into it, making root now sda10.

I adjusted grub and the fstab to reflect these changes.

On reboot I was greeted with :

/usr/lib/yaird/exec/run_init: opening console: No such file or directory
Kernel panic _ not syncing: Attempted to kill init

Any attempts to chroot into sda10 from knoppix to rebuild yaird failed and the 
only way to get the system back up was to create a new sda6 to reinstate the 
old partition order.

Glad to give more info if needed.

Ingo Wagener