[SOLVED]Booting an LTS kernel errors

bsilvereagle · 2011-06-05 13:30:12

I'm trying to boot an lts kernel, to do so I copied my regular Arch grub entry and appended -lts to the end of everything.
The first time I booted I recieved v86d (uvesafb) and autodetect errors so I created an image without them. That image gets the following error:

ash: /dev/: unknown operand
Waiting 10 seconds for device ...
Root device '' doesn't exist. Attempting to create it.
ash: /dev/: unknown operand
ERROR: unable to determine major/minor number of root device ''. 
You are being dropped to a recovery shell
   Type 'exit' to try and continue botting
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
[ramfs /]#

After some manipulation (not quite sure what worked and what didn't) I have received:

Trying to continue (this mill most likely fail) ...
modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.32-lts/modules.dep: No such file or directory

Last edited by bsilvereagle (2011-06-18 14:24:14)

bsilvereagle · 2011-06-12 23:55:45

Anything from anyone?
I've never heard of "ash" is it the pre-shell? Anything ideas or information I can take a run with?

karol · 2011-06-13 00:02:36

bsilvereagle wrote:

Anything from anyone?
I've never heard of "ash" is it the pre-shell? Anything ideas or information I can take a run with?

ash is a shell (Almquist shell), somewhat limited compared to bash or zsh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_shell

On topic: did you build the needed modules with kernel26-lts-headers?

bsilvereagle · 2011-06-13 01:16:16

I missed the equal sign in "root=/dev/sda7" in my menu.lst, so that cut off the "Root Device Doesn't Exist" errors. In return, /dev/sda7 (my root partition) cannot be found.
The new menu.lst entry:

title Arch Linux LTS
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26-lts root=/dev/sda7 ro rootfstype=ext4
initrd /boot/kernel26-lts.img

I am not loading any modules for the lts kernel...should I be?
The hooks in mkinicpio.conf:

"base udev pata scsi sata filesystems"

I'm running mkinitcpio using

mkinitcpio -p kernel26-lts -g /boot/kernel26-lts.img

SOLVED: a resintall through pacman did the trick for whatever reason. Thanks for all the help.

Last edited by bsilvereagle (2011-06-18 14:24:40)

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#1 2011-06-05 13:30:12

[SOLVED]Booting an LTS kernel errors

#2 2011-06-12 23:55:45

Re: [SOLVED]Booting an LTS kernel errors

#3 2011-06-13 00:02:36

Re: [SOLVED]Booting an LTS kernel errors

#4 2011-06-13 01:16:16

Re: [SOLVED]Booting an LTS kernel errors

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