dekinstoke
November 21st, 2010, 09:49 PM
Having the same issue with 10.10 and 10.04, that is I am getting the "root disk cannot be found. dropping to shell. initrams"
If I go to recovery mode, hit E and edit the boot script by changing root=(hd1,1) to root=(hd0,1) i can get a text based login and then run startx and it all boots ok.
I have noticed an interesting thing. If I run the disk utility I find that both the IDE hard drives on my system are seen as SCSI/SATA drives, i.e they are given the designations sdb and sdc. Now surely IDE drives should be Hdb and Hdc?
Could this be why the boot is getting messed up? After all if the system is looking for SATA drives which don't exist?
Any ideas would be welcome as it would be nice to have a system that boots first time .....
If I go to recovery mode, hit E and edit the boot script by changing root=(hd1,1) to root=(hd0,1) i can get a text based login and then run startx and it all boots ok.
I have noticed an interesting thing. If I run the disk utility I find that both the IDE hard drives on my system are seen as SCSI/SATA drives, i.e they are given the designations sdb and sdc. Now surely IDE drives should be Hdb and Hdc?
Could this be why the boot is getting messed up? After all if the system is looking for SATA drives which don't exist?
Any ideas would be welcome as it would be nice to have a system that boots first time .....