I wrote:
Now it's failed in a different section and complains that it can't find
/sbin/init. I'm at the (initramfs) prompt, which I don't ever recall
seeing before. I can't mount /dev/md/root on any mount points ("invalid
arguments" even though I'm not supplying any). I've checked /dev/md/root
and it does work as expected when I try mounting it while in my
emergency partition, and it does contain /sbin/init and the other files
and mount points for /var, /boot, /tmp, etc.
So this leads me to the question of why /sbin isn't being seen. /sbin is
on the device /dev/md/root, and /etc/fstab specifically mounts it at /.
I would think /boot would look at an internal copy of /etc/fstab. Is
this another side effect of using /boot on its own partition?
The answer: I managed to make a mistake in the configuration of grub, in
/boot/grub/menu.lst. I'd changed root= from /dev/md/root to
/dev/md/boot -- but I really need to include the *root* location, which
does not change, vs. the boot location, which is not relevant.
--
Moshe Yudkowsky * moshe@xxxxxxxxx * www.pobox.com/~moshe
"The central tenet of Buddhism is not 'Every man for himself.'"
-- Wanda
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