Hi Dan, Thanks for your email. fdisk shows the following during install.
Partition table entries are not in disk order Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250000000000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30394 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x41ab2316 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 18 144553+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 19 261 1951897+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb3 262 990 5855692+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb4 991 30394 236187630 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 991 1719 5855661 83 Linux /dev/sdb6 1720 1962 1951866 83 Linux /dev/sdb7 1963 5609 29294496 83 Linux /dev/sdb8 5610 6825 9767488+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb9 6826 14120 58597056 83 Linux /dev/sdb10 14121 17767 29294496 83 Linux /dev/sdb11 17768 30394 101426346 83 Linux And the Raid controller is a SAS 6i Regards, Prashant Dan Simoes wrote: > What does dmesg and fdisk show you have for drives? > Also, which RAID controller are you using? > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Prashant > Ramhit<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Anyone has experience on installing Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on R410. >> During installation i was able to partition the drive and installation >> went fine. >> >> Then, when booting I have the following message. >> >> Giving up waiting for root device >> Alert /dev/disk/by-uid e893.... does not exist >> Dropping to a shell >> >> I boot up in recovery mode and edited the fstab to have >> /dev/sda3 mounted on / and grub to root=/dev/sda3 >> >> Now i have the following >> >> Giving up waiting for root device >> Alert /dev/sda3 does not exist >> Dropping to a shell >> >> Any notes will be very appreciated. >> >> Many thanks. >> Prashant >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-PowerEdge mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge >> Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq >> >> > > _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
