Re: waiting for root file system

2010-11-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:19:24 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: So, you have changed not only the board but also the disk interface (it was ide and now is sata)? Does the new kernel has "libata" module loaded? It was a sata disk in an external enclosure connected

Re: waiting for root file system

2010-11-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:19:24 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> So, you have changed not only the board but also the disk interface (it >> was ide and now is sata)? Does the new kernel has "libata" module >> loaded? > > It was a sata disk in an external enclosure connected with U

Re: waiting for root file system

2010-11-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Maybe now is a good time for you to put your Grub's menu config (either upload the full file to an external server or attach the file to the message). Also, include the output of "fdisk -l" that will help us to get a better understanding of your current system structure :-) I use SGD. I at

Re: waiting for root file system

2010-11-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:55:53 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) Or maybe your GRUB has to be properly updated for looking into the right "root (hdx,n)" device? Let me do a grub-install, but it finds the root device and boots it, but it hangs after init

Re: waiting for root file system

2010-11-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:55:53 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Or maybe your GRUB has to be properly updated for looking into the >> right "root (hdx,n)" device? >> >> > Let me do a grub-install, but it finds the root device and boots it, but > it hangs after initrd w

Re: waiting for root file system

2010-11-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 09:58:00 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I changed motherboards and now when I boot I get "waiting for root file > system". (...) Same motherboard or a different (brand/model) one? How are the sata BIOS settings now and then (sata/ahci/raid)? Maybe you need to load a kernel

Re: waiting for root file system

2010-11-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 09:58:00 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I changed motherboards and now when I boot I get "waiting for root file system". (...) Same motherboard or a different (brand/model) one? Different motherboard/cpu/memory old:epox 8VTAI new:asus M4N98TD EVO + Athl

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > Robert P. J. Day 写道: > > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > > > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > > > > > > (with respect to getting my /dev/sda* device files built) > > > > > > > > > > So here, your best choice seems to try. > > > > he

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Niu Kun
Robert P. J. Day 写道: On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: (with respect to getting my /dev/sda* device files built) So here, your best choice seems to try. here's my z60_hdparm.rules file: i'm assuming that's a brand new rules fil

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > > (with respect to getting my /dev/sda* device files built) > > > So here, your best choice seems to try. > > here's my z60_hdparm.rules file: > > i'm assuming that's a brand new rules file, right? not just add

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: (with respect to getting my /dev/sda* device files built) > So here, your best choice seems to try. > here's my z60_hdparm.rules file: i'm assuming that's a brand new rules file, right? not just adding to an existing rules file since i have no such file. >

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Niu Kun
Robert P. J. Day 写道: ok, here's what i think i've discovered (given that, again, i'm a relative newcomer to debian), so i'm going to ask some dumb questions which might go a long way to clarifying some things. no matter what i tried, when i booted this (recently upgraded to) etch system to t

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Niu Kun wrote: >> >> >> > Pretty cool. > Really appreciate your detailed reply. > > NP. hope it helps or gives you at least an idea how I'm doing this. I've had several times related issues as I've been using raid/lvm and also encryption, so years ago I wrote my own scripts to create initrd

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Niu Kun
Emanoil Kotsev 写道: Niu Kun wrote: and last but not least it's pretty tricky to boot broken initram but not too hard if you know the steps. Would you please say something about this? Or any useful link that can be referenced? regards First of all I would try to provi

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Niu Kun wrote: >> and last but not least it's pretty tricky to boot broken initram but not >> too hard if you know the steps. >> > Would you please say something about this? > Or any useful link that can be referenced? >> regards First of all I would try to provide the root kernel option. If y

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ok, here's what i think i've discovered (given that, again, i'm a relative newcomer to debian), so i'm going to ask some dumb questions which might go a long way to clarifying some things. no matter what i tried, when i booted this (recently upgraded to) etch system to the newly-installed 2.6

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Niu Kun
Emanoil Kotsev 写道: Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: Have you ever run update-initramfs command manually on the pre-compiled kernel? I remember that I fixed such a problem once. Hope this will help. And look forward to your feedback. nope -- as i me

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > >> Have you ever run update-initramfs command manually on the >> pre-compiled kernel? I remember that I fixed such a problem once. >> Hope this will help. And look forward to your feedback. > > nope -- as i mentioned earlier, i'm

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > Have you ever run update-initramfs command manually on the > pre-compiled kernel? I remember that I fixed such a problem once. > Hope this will help. And look forward to your feedback. nope -- as i mentioned earlier, i'm fairly new to debian so a good deal

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > that is the *ultimate* goal, but i'm doing this in steps. on the > chance that it's the default 2.6.18 etch kernel, i just upgraded that > to the 2.6.24 etchnhalf kernel. we'll see if that fixes things. upgrading to the 2.6.24 etchnhalf kernel

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Niu Kun
Robert P. J. Day 写道: On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: Robert P. J. Day 写道: (NOTE: please ignore my earlier and utterly misinformed plea for help. turns out that, in attempting to mount /dev/sda1 as the alleged root filesystem, the new 2.6 kernel was finding the external backup h

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > Robert P. J. Day 写道: > > (NOTE: please ignore my earlier and utterly misinformed plea > > for help. turns out that, in attempting to mount /dev/sda1 as the > > alleged root filesystem, the new 2.6 kernel was finding the > > external backup hard drive at /d

Re: "Waiting for root file system ..."

2009-08-21 Thread Niu Kun
Robert P. J. Day 写道: (NOTE: please ignore my earlier and utterly misinformed plea for help. turns out that, in attempting to mount /dev/sda1 as the alleged root filesystem, the new 2.6 kernel was finding the external backup hard drive at /dev/sda1. no surprise that that wasn't bootable. ack.

Re: Waiting for root file system...

2009-01-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 2009 January 23 01:38:57 lovecreatesbeauty.g-mail.c0m wrote: >I updated kernel on debian-40r6 (2.6.18) to 2.6.28 from kernel.org, >and got the error* "Waiting for root file system..." when booting the >new kernel. Ah, I've seen that a few times, myself. >The linux's hosted in VMware Wor

Re: Waiting for root file system...

2009-01-23 Thread lovecreatesbea...@gmail.c0m
On Jan 23, 4:00 pm, "lovecreatesbeauty.g-mail.c0m" wrote: > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28.1 root=/dev/sda1 ro > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28.1 > sorry the occurences of "28.1" above should be "28" . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-15 Thread Per Tunedal Debian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > This is becoming a FAQ. There is a problem with udev. > Before udev, there was a strong association between > device names and devices. With udev, that association > is much weaker. > There's new randomness in

Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-10 Thread cls
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] This is becoming a FAQ. There is a problem with udev. Before udev, there was a strong association between device names and devices. With udev, that association is much weaker. There's new randomness in how partitions are named during boot.

Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-10 Thread Per Tunedal Debian
Florian Kulzer skrev: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:39:11 -0500, dave N wrote: > > [...] > >> Question: In the menu.lst grub file, how would I use >> the label assignment in the line: >> >> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-686 root=/dev/sdc2 ro > > I think this should be OK: > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.1

Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:39:11 -0500, dave N wrote: [...] > Question: In the menu.lst grub file, how would I use > the label assignment in the line: > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-686 root=/dev/sdc2 ro I think this should be OK: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-686 root=LABEL=your_root_label ro I

Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-03 Thread dave N
--- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:24:07AM -0800, Andrew > Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:24:07AM -0500, dave N > wrote: > > If you wait long enough (at least 30 seconds, > maybe a couple minutes, > > I

Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:24:07AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:24:07AM -0500, dave N wrote: > If you wait long enough (at least 30 seconds, maybe a couple minutes, > I can't remember) you should get dropped to a busybox shell. The

Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-02 Thread dave N
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:04:18AM -0500, dave N wrote: > I booted with Knoppix live and there is nothing in /var/log/messages, none of > the logs appear to have changed since I last booted 2 days ago. I have not > run fsck or anything else on this yet

Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:24:07AM -0500, dave N wrote: > dave N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi: > > I've installed Etch r1 and the only real thing I've done to the system is > updated the system, though during the update it updated the kernel to the > same kernel that was installed during t

Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:04:18AM -0500, dave N wrote: > I booted with Knoppix live and there is nothing in /var/log/messages, none > of the logs appear to have changed since I last booted 2 days ago. I have not > run fsck or anything else on this yet. > > Ideas? This is usually a

Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-02 Thread dave N
dave N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi: I've installed Etch r1 and the only real thing I've done to the system is updated the system, though during the update it updated the kernel to the same kernel that was installed during the installation (used the medium to try and get more control over

Re: Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-16 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
Vidar Langseid wrote: Hi In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: [snip upgrade instructions] Thanks for posting your experience! I am sure it will be useful to others. You could have a debate about whether this is an installer bug, a kern

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-16 Thread Vidar Langseid
Hi > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > > [snip upgrade instructions] > > > > Thanks for posting your experience! I am sure it will be useful to > > others. > > > >> You could have

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:14:18AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 09:14:44PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > it turns out you can do a reasonable amount of stuff in that busybox > > shell and if the system is close to booting, you can get it to > > go. What I w

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 09:14:44PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > it turns out you can do a reasonable amount of stuff in that busybox > shell and if the system is close to booting, you can get it to > go. What I was missing, and desperately wanted, was some kind of text > editor. I ended

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 02:38:36AM +, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > I've had to learn my > > way around that having just reconfigured my laptop. The critical item > > is the contents of $ROOT. The value of $ROOT gets set by the k

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-02 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 03:33:06PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> > Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: [ when I upgraded Etch to Lenny, device names changed and the Lenny kernel

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 03:33:06PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > > > Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > > [snip upgrade instructions] > > > > Thanks for posting your experience! I

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-02 Thread cls
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > [snip upgrade instructions] > > Thanks for posting your experience! I am sure it will be useful to others. > >> You could have a debate about whether

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: [snip upgrade instructions] Thanks for posting your experience! I am sure it will be useful to others. > You could have a debate about whether this is an installer > bug, a kernel package bug, a udev bug, or operator error.

Re: Waiting for root file system... ...

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:17:33PM -0300, Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to make a smooth transition fom windows to Debian in my work PC. :) > > I needed to be sure that not having win on this machine wouldn't affect > my work, since unfortunatelly we use many windows-based ap

Re: Waiting for root file system... ...

2007-10-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: > Begin: Mounting root file system... ... > Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... > Done. > Begin: Waiting for root file system... ... > And from there, I can only Control-Alt-Delete or do a cold reset. > The machine is a Dell Optiplex GX280 P4-HT with 2GB RAM and a 80