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ursusca
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 Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:09 pm Post subject: [solved]fails to boot |
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Hello All,
I've added a new SATA HDD to my box and my drive letters were changed. I've changed my fstab and grub.conf using UUID instead of the /dev/xdx way to identify the disks. Now I see the following warning message during the boot sequence:
| Code: | !!The filesystem mounted at /dev/sdb3 does not appear to be a valid /. Try again
!!Could not find the root block device in.
Please specify another value or: press Enter for the same , type "shell" ......
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I can enter another value manually and it works. But almost every time I need to put a different /dev/xdx value.
What I'm missing here?
Thanks,
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Kaso_da_Zmok
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| Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:32 pm Post subject: it is strange your sdx changes so often |
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do you use iniramfs with disklabel support? (means that it has blkid in it) otherwise the GRUB will not be able to use UUID.
so google for the how to
i just use | Code: | | genkernel --disklabel --menuconfig all |
other things might be that you have some weird drivers configured that somehow cause the disks to be discovered in random order based on the wind direction.
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ursusca
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| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 3:51 am Post subject: Re: it is strange your sdx changes so often |
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| Kaso_da_Zmok wrote: | do you use iniramfs with disklabel support? (means that it has blkid in it) otherwise the GRUB will not be able to use UUID.
so google for the how to
i just use genkernel --disklabel --menuconfig all
other things might be that you have some weird drivers configured that somehow cause the disks to be discovered in random order based on the wind direction. |
Thanks!!! It helped. It also solved my another problem: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6942048.html#6942048
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