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  1. Bug #59930
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 59930

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Ben Collins (ben-collins) wrote : Re: [Bug 59930] Re: Boot hangs with message 'Waiting for root file system'

On Sep 13, 2006, at 7:00 PM, Rob Moore wrote:

> I experienced this problem again and discovered I'd be dropped into
> busybox after a wait. I receive this error: ALERT! /dev/sda1 does not
> exist. Dropping to shell!

Edit the grub entry (from the grub menu on boot) so that it uses /dev/
hda1 instead. This is what I consider an installer bug, because we
changed some sata drives back to ide. However, the grub menu uses
root=/dev/sda1 when it should be using root=UUID=XXX....

When you complete the boot, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst, and remove the
kopt_2_6 line, then rerun "sudo update-grub".