Over the last few days I have been trying to upgrade my Debian testing system. So far so good.. except I have no usb, and today I discover cups isn't working..
Well, I figured out that all of this is related to another obscure boot error message that flies by on the screen during boot: Something about udev needs 2.6.15 to work.
Then during my googles on cups, I find that the udev is necessary to get /dev functioning properly. (at least that is the gist of it)
So, I installed kernel-image-2.6.16 yadda yadda... and I ran update-grub to set up my boot process.
Tehn, I boot kernel 2.6.16 and it halts half way through and dumps me into something called BusyBox.
Then, I reboot back into my kernel 2.6.7 and hit google.
There is not much information out there on this issue, so I assume it is either a rare incident, or it is so new that not many people have experienced it yet. But I did find this:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/archive/.../t-185396.html
Therein, it suggests that the new kernel (or udev, I haven't figured out which) is detecting my drives and/or partitions in a different order than before!
So, is this true??? Do I have to change my fstab in order to get the new kernel to boot??
And does this also means that once I make the change, I can never boot my old kernels again without changing fstab back again?
Any information on how to fix this new error is greatly appreciated.
EDIT: I just looked in the man page for udev and it says:
All udev configuration files are placed in /etc/udev/*.
but I don't have an /etc/udev directory. Why this wasn't created during the installation and setup of udev I can't imagine.
Jim
