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  1. Bug #236307
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Comment 4 for bug 236307

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Andrew Hart (andrew-crawwler) wrote :

I might have found something useful:

by removing 'quiet splash' from the end of the 'root=...' line I was able to look at the boot output. I was trying to determine when in the boot process BusyBox was being invoked. The following appears in the output:
...
...
Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ...
Done.
mount: Mounting /dev/disk/by-uuid/2E0E-0CE2 on /root failed: No such device
mount: Mounting /root on /host failed: Invalid argument
ALERT! /host/ubuntu/disks/root.disk does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-5ubuntu12) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

At this point BusyBox has taken over. The strange thing is that the file /host/ubuntu/disks/root.disk DOES exist:
andrew@crawwler2:/host/ubuntu/disks$ ls -alh
total 7.5G
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 32K 2008-05-01 01:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 32K 2008-05-01 01:53 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 32K 2008-05-31 23:40 boot
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.8G 2008-04-26 07:58 root.disk
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 32K 2008-05-01 08:53 shared
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 954M 2008-05-01 09:58 swap.disk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.8G 2008-06-01 06:50 usr.disk

I'm not sure whats going on here, or why -16 seems to find and mount the file without problems.