That's the problem - your drive is sdb, not sda. Edit fstab to show sdb partitions. Any other controllers or drives present? Odd that it would switch the order to sdb. We've seen this when adding external arrays on a PERC6E for example, but not with a single drive/array.
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Prashant Ramhit<[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
