FS#13340 - [kernel26] Unable to create/detect root device
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Opened by Maggie (Maggie34) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 15:14 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 03 October 2009, 19:51 GMT
Opened by Maggie (Maggie34) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 15:14 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 03 October 2009, 19:51 GMT
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Since I've installed kernel 2.8.5-1 I can't boot my system. I still get an error: Root device '/dev/sda1' doesn't exist, attempting to create it ERROR: Failed to parse block device name for '/dev/disk/by-uuid/f53df57c-df2d-4926-9f42-6591bc014f60' ERROR: Unable to create/detect root device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/f53df57c-df2d-4926-9f42-6591bc014f60' Dropping to a recovery shell... type 'exit' to reboot NOTE: klibc contains no 'ls' binary, use 'echo *' instead Last working kernel is 2.6.25.6-1. My hwd (only HDD): HARDWARE DETECT ver 5.4.2 (simple mode) Kernel : 2.6.25-ARCH CPU & Cache: Processor 0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz 3066MHz, 1024 KB Cache Processor 1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz 3066MHz, 1024 KB Cache HDD : 182 SATA/RAID Controller module: sata_sis My fstab: UUID=239fae1c-b6e0-4f63-89eb-cdac1b8c9d6b /home ext3 defaults 0 1 UUID=81ed8ccc-3938-4d29-a115-507534d107e6 swap swap defaults 0 0 UUID=f53df57c-df2d-4926-9f42-6591bc014f60 / ext3 defaults 0 1 My menu.lst: # (0) Arch Linux title Arch Linux root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/f53df57c-df2d-4926-9f42-6591bc014f60 ro initrd /boot/kernel26.img # (1) Arch Linux title Arch Linux Fallback root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/f53df57c-df2d-4926-9f42-6591bc014f60 ro initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img And mkinitcpio.conf: MODULES="pata_acpi pata_sis ata_generic scsi_mod sata_sis" HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata usbinput keymap filesystems" |
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Closed by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Saturday, 03 October 2009, 19:51 GMT
Reason for closing: No response
Additional comments about closing: no news here and in bugzilla.kernel.org
Saturday, 03 October 2009, 19:51 GMT
Reason for closing: No response
Additional comments about closing: no news here and in bugzilla.kernel.org
Can you boot with the fallback image?
See also
FS#12818No, I can't boot whit the fallback image. I can't also install from 2009.02 CD -> my harddisk is not found! :(
This was a new installation using the final RC of the 2009.02 USB image for i686 with an ftp installation on an ASUS EEE901 (the cd method didn't work as the /src/core/pkg didn't mount for some reason).
After being dumped to the recovery shell, I tried all the usual rootdelay=8, rootfstype=ext4, (+fall back image) solutions without success.
echo /dev/sd* showed that the USB SD card that arch had been installed to (sdc2) didn't exist, even when the UUID was changed to sdc2. (Though it would have been sdd2 at the time of install due to the installation media being sdc. sdd2 also didn't exist).
Chrooting to the installed system and running "pacman -S base" completed successfully and the standard & fallback images were created without error. But still not able to boot.
Howwever, chrooting and installing the AUR kernel26-eee901 package (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22904) resulted in success;)
Re-installing the kernel26 package (2.6.28.6-1) still didn't result in a successful boot.
This anomaly has been reported elsewhere on the web for some months now (eg http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=48604) ut it is very rare, and I haven't seen a successful solution posted.
Note tht I used the same USB img to perform an identical ARCH installation to a desktop machine only a few days previously, without experiencing this problem. The only difference I can think of is that it was that the base install was from the source USB stick rather than via an ftp install.
TTFN. Sorry it was long winded.
I've uploaded it to http://www.mediafire.com/?mkf2nmks24i