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#1 2010-07-08 06:15:49
- enihcam
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Survey on "Root device '/dev/sd..' doesn't exist" after upgrade.
The issue does not take place on my another machine where its chipset is from Intel.
If you are encountering this issue, please let me know what the chipset model and harddrive interface are of your machine. Thanks.
Mine is SiS741GX / IDE (Seagate).
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#2 2010-07-08 07:12:39
- tomk
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Re: Survey on "Root device '/dev/sd..' doesn't exist" after upgrade.
You don't need a survey for this - you need to regenerate your initramfs image.See the mkinitcpio wiki page for details.
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#3 2010-07-08 21:53:01
- w1ntermute
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Re: Survey on "Root device '/dev/sd..' doesn't exist" after upgrade.
You don't need a survey for this - you need to regenerate your initramfs image.See the mkinitcpio wiki page for details.
Then why is this happening on clean installs? Shouldn't mkinitcpio be run during the install process?
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#4 2010-07-08 23:27:52
- tomk
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Re: Survey on "Root device '/dev/sd..' doesn't exist" after upgrade.
Yes it should - and the user is responsible for making sure that happens.
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#5 2010-07-09 18:15:28
- w1ntermute
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Re: Survey on "Root device '/dev/sd..' doesn't exist" after upgrade.
What are you talking about? When does the user have to manually run mkinitcpio? From what I remember, after "Configure System", when you exit, mkinitcpio is automatically run.
The issue is that I have done identical clean installs on 2 different machines. On one of them, this problem occurs over and over again. On the other one, I have absolutely no problems. It could be faulty hardware, but then why would it suddenly be happening to so many different people? Not to mention other distros install/run just fine.
And either way, I tried the mkinitcpio fix as detailed in the wiki, and it didn't work.
Anyway, a new device-mapper was released today, maybe that will fix it.
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