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Re: miniroot updates fail on u5s/u10s

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Nov 14 05:12:49 2001

Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 05:12:44 -0500
Message-Id: <200111141012.FAA11163@error-messages.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>
CC: release-team@mit.edu, mhbraun@mit.edu
In-reply-to: <200111132246.RAA02462@the-other-woman.mit.edu>

> Matt asked me to take a look at his u5 because it didn't come back
> when he tried to update it from 8.4 to 9.0.  It had failed to boot the
> miniroot with the error:

> Cannot load drivers for /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@0,0:b
> Can't load the root filersystem
> Type 'go' to resume

My best guess is that this is a mismatch between setup-swap-boot and
the update miniroot.  I've installed a new setup-swap-boot in the dev
cell and asked to have it propagated to the athena cell; hopefully
that will fix the problem.

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