Bug#918322: initramfs-tools: kernel fails to boot with "Gave up waiting for root file system device"

[Michael Biebl]

Am 08.01.19 um 18:11 schrieb Isaac Gelado:
> As a side hint that might be helpful. I had two kernels 4.18 and 4.19
> in my system. This problem started when I first boot 4.19, while I was
> able to boot 4.18 without problems. At some point I decided to do an
> `update-initramfs -k all -u` and the problem started to also happen
> when booting 4.18. I do not understand why when upgrading udev/systemd
> from 239-15 to 240-2 the trigger only updated the iniramfs for 4.19.

This is expected. udev's postinst runs "update-initramfs -u" which only
updates the initramfs of the currently active kernel, not for all of them.
For that, as you already mentioned, you need to pass "-k all"

Regards,
Michael

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