TI kernel update failure (LTS 4.1 to 4.4)

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Hi,

Have just updated a a board from 4.1.18-ti-r56 to 4.4.6-ti-r17 using “update_kernel.sh --lts-4_4”.
This now fails to reboot. Looking at console is stuck in initramfs where it looks there has been a failure
to find the actual file system by uuid:

ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/09d2505d-bc65-4001-ac78-1d2489083e0c does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

Could see the ramfs being rebuilt as part of the install:

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.6-ti-r17

Note that file system is actually on attached SSD. Updated another board from 4.4.6-ti-r16 and this worked fine.
Any idea what has happened here/how to fix?

Cheers Steve.

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Yeah, you can fix ( revert this ) by editing /boot/uEnv.txt and change the line for uname_r to . .

uname_r=4.1.18-ti-r56

That should get your board booting again, but no idea why the initrd is choking on what appears to be an old uuid for the disk ? Perhaps it’s an /etc/fstab issue, but that doesnt make sense . . .

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On further investigation, first failure is from udev:

/scripts/init-top/udev: line 14: can’t create /sys/kernel/uevent_helper: Permission denied

Think because of this udev is not populating /dev/disk/by-uuid/ hence subsequent failure.