[Solved] NSA325 boot hangs after upgrade to Stretch

Hi,

I followed Bodhi's instructions for upgrading to Stretch. Everything seemed to be ok, but the boot up hangs. Through the serial console I can see the booting stops at "fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/root Possibly non-existent device?"
I can resume the boot by CTRL+D and after that the system starts just fine. Is there a way to recover or do I need to re-install with a fresh rootfs?

-nibbler



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/08/2017 12:45PM by nibbler.

nibbler Wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I followed Bodhi's instructions for upgrading to S
> tretch. Everything seemed to be ok, but the boot u
> p hangs. Through the serial console I can see the
> booting stops at "fsck.ext3: No such file or direc
> tory while trying to open /dev/root Possibly non-e
> xistent device?"
> I can resume the boot by CTRL+D and after that the
> system starts just fine. Is there a way to recover
> or do I need to re-install with a fresh rootfs?
>
> -nibbler

Thanks for reporting this problem. I meant to add the solution to this possible problem in the stretch upgrade thread, but forgot :) let me write it there and let you know.

-bodhi
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nibbler,

I've added another step in the instruction to help preventing this problem (1d or 2e).

http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,35581

Basically, Debian stretch now has stricter rule, and will reject this old format (it used to ignore this root device entry, because /dev/root is obsolete):

/dev/root      /               ext3    noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1

You need to edit /etc/fstab entry for root device to the new syntax to use the rootfs label:

LABEL=rootfs    /               ext3    noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/07/2017 05:12PM by bodhi.

Hi,

editing the fstab solved this, now my box is booting fine. Thank you Bodhi!

-nibbler