Re: [tlug] Etch bootup fail after installation

[Charles Muller <acmuller@example.com>]

Josh Glover wrote:

> On 02/10/06, Charles Muller <acmuller@example.com> wrote:
>
> > I've just bought a new Dell Dimension 5150c (160 GB SATA drive, 2.66 Duo
> > Core Intel) on which I'm trying to install Etch. The installation runs
> > fine, but on first boot, it hangs up at the following:
> >
> >      Begin: Waiting for root filesystem... ...
> >      Done.
> >           Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline
> >           or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
> >      ALERT! /dev/sda8 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
>
> I assume you have the GRUB bootloader, in which case you need to
> interrupt the boot process and drop to the GRUB shell, and try
> something like:
>
> root sd0,8
> setup sd0

It turns out that the problem was not solved--it's intermittent. 
Sometimes the boot goes through, and sometimes it stops. I'll see if I 
can get it to do this again, and then I'll try this.

Thanks,

Chuck

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