support@microtechnow.com
January 10th, 2012, 10:34 PM
I have a refurbished Dell PowerEdge R200 using a SAS 6 RAID controller that I am attempting to install Ubuntu Server 10.04.3 LTS x64 on. I have a RAID 1 setup that I am installing to. Well the install of Ubuntu Server x64 went through with no errors, but when I rebooted it went to a (initramfs) prompt complaining that it gave up waiting for the root device.
As soon as it shows that prompt, I can type enter and it continues booting to the logon prompt. I’ve done a good amount of research at this point and cannot find anything concrete that will fix this. One thing I found is for Grub and it says to add rootdelay=90 to /boot/grub/menu.lst but Grub2 doesn’t have that. I have also tried editing /etc/default/grub to uncomment GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true so that grub stops using the UUID. It appears to me that it’s just timing out before the boot path is fully detected. Does anyone have any ideas?
As soon as it shows that prompt, I can type enter and it continues booting to the logon prompt. I’ve done a good amount of research at this point and cannot find anything concrete that will fix this. One thing I found is for Grub and it says to add rootdelay=90 to /boot/grub/menu.lst but Grub2 doesn’t have that. I have also tried editing /etc/default/grub to uncomment GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true so that grub stops using the UUID. It appears to me that it’s just timing out before the boot path is fully detected. Does anyone have any ideas?