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

[Isaac Gelado]

Sorry for the late reply. I could not reboot my machine until today.

I added a sleep 5 and it didn’t work.

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 9:15 AM Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:

> 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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> universe are pointed away from Earth?
>
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