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solamour
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 Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 7:12 pm Post subject: [Solved] GRUB2 Cannot Open Root Device |
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I'm at "Chainloading GRUB2 from GRUB Legacy to test the setup" section in "GRUB2 migration from GRUB Legacy" (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub2-migration.xml).
When GRUB Legacy shows up, I see my usual legacy entry and GRUB2 Chainloading. When I select my legacy entry, everything boots up fine. But when I select GRUB2 Chainloading, GRUB2 screen shows up, and I'm greeted with "VFS: Cannot open root device b2a25719-0d1e-4ab3-b76e-5ed3256d728a or unknown-block(0,0): error -6".
If I press "e" to change GRUB2 entry from "root=UUID=b2a25719-0d1e-4ab3-b76e-5ed3256d728a" to "root=/dev/sda1", then everything works fine. Please share any suggestions.
| Code: | # blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="b2a25719-0d1e-4ab3-b76e-5ed3256d728a" TYPE="ext4"
[/boot/grub/grub.cfg]
menuentry 'Gentoo GNU/Linux' --class gentoo --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-b2a25719-0d1e-4ab3-b76e-5ed3256d728a' {
load_video
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1 --hint='hd0,msdos1' b2a25719-0d1e-4ab3-b76e-5ed3256d728a
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root b2a25719-0d1e-4ab3-b76e-5ed3256d728a
fi
echo 'Loading Linux 3.10.7-gentoo-r1 ...'
linux /boot/kernel-3.10.7-gentoo-r1 root=UUID=b2a25719-0d1e-4ab3-b76e-5ed3256d728a ro
}
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mv
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| Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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| You cannot use root=UUID=... without an initrd. (This has nothing to do with grub/grub2: The linux kernel is not able to interpret this parameter; it can only be interpreted by an initrd). |
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solamour
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| Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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Indeed. After creating initramfs using dracut, the system boots up without a problem using GRUB2. Thanks for taking time to respond.
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