HELP!! /dev/root mount failure
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Sat Jun 10 01:41:23 UTC 2006
Hadders wrote:
> Hello all.
> I posted this earlier in the week, but decided this morning, I would
> shift my ext3 partition to the front of the disk and have grub install
> onto /dev/hda
>
> But, Grub STILL hangs when it tries to load itself and although I can
> use lilo 22-7 to get the install working I still get this error!
>
> Trying to resume from LABEL=SWAP-hda3
> No suspend signature on swap, not resuming
> Creating root device.
> Mouting root filesystem.
> mount: could not find file system '/dev/root'
> Setting up other filesystems.
> Setting up new root fs
> setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
> no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
> setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
> setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
> ...
> Kernel panic ..
>
> I'm at a loss as to how I even approach fixing this?
What is the contents of your grub.conf?
What is the output of e2label for each partition?
>
> How do I pause the loading cycle, and I can't even go into single user
> mode as I'm not getting that far?!
>
> I still have my GigaRAID ATA bios loaded for the RAID 0 container I
> have, is it possible this is mapping to a memory address and conflicting
> with Grub and setting up dev root?
>
> I'm also using the SMP kernel by default as I have a dual core Intel
> 2.66.... perhaps I will try the single processor kernels...
>
> HELP, please! ;-)
>
> Hadders
>
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