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Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie

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Elisabetta Falivene wrote:

> It wasn't me to configure the machine in the first place so is a bit
> tricky. I can give more information if you can point me out what you could
> need. thank you a lot

well it is interesting to know if you have raid or so, if your boot and root
are on LVM, or probably only root is on lvm.

Perhaps it will be sufficient to pass root parameter to the kernel

the process to fix initrd is not that complicated

1. boot from rescue media usb like ubuntu
2. become root (sudo bash)
3. vgscan
4. vgchange -ay <volume group>
5. mount root and boot somewhere ex. /mnt/root and /mnt/root/boot (if boot
is separate partition)

6. prepare to chroot
mount --bind /dev  /mnt/root/dev
mount --bind /dev/pts  /mnt/root/dev/pts
mount --bind /proc  /mnt/root/proc
mount --bind /sys  /mnt/root/sys

7. chroot  /mnt/root

now you can fix initrd

example

update-initramfs -u -k `uname -r`

8. update-grub (not really needed, but to be on the safe side)

9. reboot

In addition

7.1 if you need to examine initrd

        cd /tmp/
        mkdir test
        cd test/
        zcat /boot/initrd.img-<version> | cpio -id

        do whatever you need to do

        find . ! -name *~ | cpio -H newc --create | gzip -9
> /boot/initrd.img-<version>


perhaps test this process in VM to get familiar with it before doing this on
production system

IMO it will be solved if you recreate initrd from the chroot environment, if
not see what you have in the initrd ... but perhaps someone else will do
this


regards

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System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Elisabetta Falivene <e.falivene@ilabroma.com> - 2018-01-09 22:20 +0100
  Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-01-09 23:00 +0100
    Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Elisabetta Falivene <e.falivene@ilabroma.com> - 2018-01-10 11:40 +0100
      Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-01-10 19:50 +0100
        Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-01-10 22:00 +0100
          Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-01-10 22:20 +0100
            Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-01-11 01:10 +0100
              Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-01-11 14:50 +0100
                Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-01-11 20:30 +0100
                Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-01-12 23:20 +0100
                Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-01-12 23:30 +0100
                Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-01-13 01:50 +0100
  Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2018-01-09 23:00 +0100
    Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Elisabetta Falivene <e.falivene@ilabroma.com> - 2018-01-10 11:30 +0100
      Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2018-01-10 12:40 +0100
        Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Elisabetta Falivene <e.falivene@ilabroma.com> - 2018-01-10 14:00 +0100
          Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2018-01-10 17:50 +0100
            Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Elisabetta Falivene <e.falivene@ilabroma.com> - 2018-01-11 11:50 +0100
              Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2018-01-11 13:10 +0100
                Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Elisabetta Falivene <e.falivene@ilabroma.com> - 2018-01-11 14:00 +0100
            Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Elisabetta Falivene <e.falivene@ilabroma.com> - 2018-01-15 13:00 +0100
              Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2018-01-15 15:30 +0100
                Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie Elisabetta Falivene <e.falivene@ilabroma.com> - 2018-01-15 15:30 +0100

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