After-install bug. ubuntu 10.10 x64. "gave up waiting for root device [...]" (initramfs)
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Wubi |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I use an AMD athlon x64 x2 dual core using 4mb of RAM, and tried serveral times to instal ubuntu 10.10 x64 by using wubi into windows 7 ultimate. Installation seems to be OK during the wubi installation, and after the first reboot, but once the setup is finished and has to reboot into ubuntu, it drops to shell saying this:
gave up waiting for root device. common problems
-boot args (cat/proc/cmdline)
-check rootdelay=(did the system wait long enough?)
-check root=(did the sistem wait for the right device?)
-missing modules (cat /proc/modules; is/dev)
ALERT! /dev/sdb2 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
BusyBox v1.15.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.15.3-1ubuntu5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter "help" for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs)
im gonna see if i can get the info i can get from the guidelines.. but that's what i've got till now, and didn't find anydhing helpfull in any forum.
thanks a lot for reading!
| description: | updated |
| bcbc (bcbc) wrote | #1 |
Sometimes the drive orders get mixed up e.g. if another device is plugged in - or for reasons unknown. So for the ubuntu install the hard drive is recognised as /dev/sdb but on the next reboot it's /dev/sda. This is a possibility. So to rule out, hit 'e' when you see the grub menu, change /dev/sdb2 to /dev/sda2 and hit CTRL+x to boot. You can also check by hitting 'c', and entering ls (lowercase LS) to see the partitions listed. If you see (hd0) (hd0,1) (hd0,2) (and there's no (hd1,2) == /dev/sdb2) then you can be sure it should be /dev/sda2
Once booted go to a terminal and update grub (CTRL+ALT+t, sudo update-grub)
That's a possibility but there could be another cause. But try it first.