On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 14:40 -0700, Richard C. Steffens wrote: > I installed 12.04 on a Dell Dimension 2400 that has a PCI card driving a > SATA hard drive. When I boot I get the following error message: > > Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems: > - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) > - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?) > - Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?) > - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev) > Alert! /dev/disk/by-uuid/82df63b6-8b97-4287-ae1b-db29565f5370 does not > exist. > Dropping to a shell!
Not sure if you got this fixed at the clinic or not but thought I would reply anyway. At the shell if you type exit will the server go ahead and boot correctly? There is a problem I ran into (known but with the tools which create the initrd IIRC) in my case I am using LVM but it might be worth it for you to give the following a try especially if the computer booted properly after typing exit at that shell prompt you mentioned. When the grub screen is displayed edit the configuration and add rootdelay=30 to the end of the kernel line. If the root delay works and allows you computer to boot edit /etc/default/grub and add/modify it so that you have a line like the one below. GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rootdelay=30" In my case rootdelay=2 actually works. I just suggested 30 to give it a bit longer for you. This may not help you, but if not maybe it will help others. -- David _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
