On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 08:21 +0200, Joerg Schoppet wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> does anybody here on the list has experiences with Ubuntu 7.04 running
> on soekris 5501?
> 
> I've made a PXE-installation on a CF-card and everything went well:
> hdb1 - root-filesystem
> hdb5 - swap
> 
> When I reboot the system everything went well (GRUB, ...) until it
> wants to mount the root-filesystem, then I get the error:
> ALERT! /dev/hdb1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

The most obvious question here is: does it actually exist? I mean, is
there a device file in /dev named "hdb1"? May sound stupid, but Unbuntu
seems to be quite selective creating device files at installation time
(not the usual Linux bulk that I've seen so far).

Bill

> And a "BusyBox"-shell is opened.
> 
> If I start a rescue-system from PXE, it detects correctly the card.
> Are there some special modules, which have to been loaded? Or is there
> any other tip/trick/hint to start Ubuntu on a 5501?
> 
> By the way: An actual debian stable works out of the box.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Joerg Schoppet
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