On 05/20/2013 09:15 AM, David Bridges wrote: > 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?
Yes. This is what happened at the clinic. > 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. It's one of the things we suspected, but we pretty much figured the real problem was the PCI card that runs the SATA hard drive. I don't have the model number handy right now, but Keith Googled it yesterday and found people were having problems with it about 10 years ago, which is the rough age of the machine. When I get some free time this week I'll try your recommendation and see what I get. Thanks for the tip. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
