Cannot resolve UUID. No blkid ouput

[nightg0at]

After switching my Debian from squeeze to unstable, the kernel will not boot at all.

It does not recognize any of the UUIDs in fstab.

All the articles I found say to use blkid to find the UUID and match them, but after booting into maintenance blkid produces no output for any of the partitions so I don't know what it is seeing in 2.6.39.

Ive had this problem before on a laptop which caused me to switch it out for Gentoo after I could not fix it, but since this is the second time Id prefer to figure out what keeps going on.
kernel 2.6.32 still boots fine
kernel 2.6.39 is the issue.

Below is the output of a few commands when running the 2.6.32 kernel.
2.6.39 gives no output at all for blkid and fdisk -l (Ill try ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid right now but I have to log off since the machine is my router)
*EDIT: There is no /dev/disk folder when booting into 2.6.39 maintanence mode*

fstab

# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/hdb3       /               ext3    errors=remount-ro 0       1
UUID=34c70d38-8237-4a30-9d00-906d7c736d7a       /               ext3    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/hdb1       /boot           ext2    defaults        0       2
UUID=b089c119-148c-4faa-8f58-3151c13a6e31       /boot           ext2    defaults        0       2
# /dev/hdb7       /home           ext3    defaults        0       2
UUID=f7caf73a-3a24-43fc-9ed9-e9b21077bc62       /home           ext3    defaults        0       2
# /dev/hdb6       /tmp            ext3    defaults        0       2
UUID=bd1cbe97-0c0c-4d48-b0d0-748e01f19e36       /tmp            ext3    defaults        0       2
# /dev/hdb5       /var            ext3    defaults        0       2
UUID=7e5d8a22-6472-4c4a-8e11-eca3b7ff224e       /var            ext3    defaults        0       2
# /dev/hdb2       none            swap    sw              0       0
UUID=ad02068c-8518-4e69-8b74-49d5b9e82c69       none            swap    sw              0       0
# /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
/dev/cdrom        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May 22 12:24 0000-0001 -> ../../sdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May 22 12:24 34c70d38-8237-4a30-9d00-906d7c736d7a -> ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May 22 12:24 7e5d8a22-6472-4c4a-8e11-eca3b7ff224e -> ../../sda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May 22 12:24 ad02068c-8518-4e69-8b74-49d5b9e82c69 -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May 22 12:24 b089c119-148c-4faa-8f58-3151c13a6e31 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May 22 12:24 bd1cbe97-0c0c-4d48-b0d0-748e01f19e36 -> ../../sda6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May 22 12:24 f7caf73a-3a24-43fc-9ed9-e9b21077bc62 -> ../../sda7

blkid

/dev/sda1: LABEL="/boot" UUID="b089c119-148c-4faa-8f58-3151c13a6e31" TYPE="ext2" 
/dev/sda2: UUID="ad02068c-8518-4e69-8b74-49d5b9e82c69" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/sda3: LABEL="/" UUID="34c70d38-8237-4a30-9d00-906d7c736d7a" TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/sda5: LABEL="/var" UUID="7e5d8a22-6472-4c4a-8e11-eca3b7ff224e" TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/sda6: LABEL="/tmp" UUID="bd1cbe97-0c0c-4d48-b0d0-748e01f19e36" TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/sda7: LABEL="/home" UUID="f7caf73a-3a24-43fc-9ed9-e9b21077bc62" TYPE="ext3"

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x87a28449

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1         608     4883728+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2             609         851     1951897+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3             852        2067     9767520   83  Linux
/dev/sda4            2068        9729    61545015    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            2068        8146    48829536   83  Linux
/dev/sda6            8147        8632     3903763+  83  Linux
/dev/sda7            8633        9729     8811621   83  Linux

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks

[yancek]

Your fstab output show all the partitions as hdx,y while your blkid and ls -l commands show as sdx,y. So where is the fstab file you posted? What else is on this machine?

Also, what does "the kernel will not boot at all" mean? Do you get any messages? Exactly what happens?

[nightg0at]

The fstab is /etc/fstab
When I say it wont boot, I mean that full boot fails with"Cannot Resolve UUID X" and Im left with the screen that says "Press Control-D for maintanance mode or enter root password"
The machine is a gateway/firewall. So nothing but firewall and IDS stuff. Everything is CLI only including the iptables firewall.

The hdaX in fstab versus the sdaX in everything else, is actually how its all showing up when running the commands from the 2.6.32 kernel. The change might have come about when I moved from stable to sqeeze last year. So that may be what happended. Although 2.6.32 has never complained. I didnt even notice that until I posted. It is strange though.

Ill log off and reboot it and what other info I can get.

[nightg0at]

I suppose you could say that is still does boot, but most services fail including udev, exim, etc.
Networking does start though.
I can see my / filesystem but still blkid and the other commands show no output

Also, the hdaX references were commented out so it shouldnt affect mounting the partitions. The backup from when it was changed to UUID is dated Nov 2010.