I have been attempting to upgrade a Debian "Squeeze" Linux box from 2.6.32-3-amd64 to 2.6.32-5-amd64, but the upgrade is a non-starter. GRUB2 comes up just fine, but when I select the new kernel version, a number of announcements flash by too fast to seen. I am not 100% certain, but I believe the initrd starts to load OK. Some text flies by far too quickly to be seen, but then an error pops up concerning an address space collision of some PCI device. Then it shows three errors for RAID devices md1. md2, and md3, saying they are already in use. Immediately thereafter the system shows errors concerning the RAID targets being already in use, after which point the system complains it can't mount / (md2), /dev, /sys, or /proc (in that order) because the sources do not exist (if /dev/md2 does not exist, how can it be busy?). Thereafter, of course, it fails to find init, since / is not mounted. It then tries to run BusyBox, but Busybox complains: /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off After that, it attempts to put up an initramfs prompt, but of course with no tty access, it just hangs completely. Not surprisingly, recovery mode doesn't boot, either. It gives a bit more detail in the output, but nothing illuminating. The old kernel (2.6.32-3-amd64) boots just fine. Obviously there is a problem in the initramfs, probably with mdadm, but what? What should I try to manipulate in the initrd so I can find out what is failing? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
