raghunath22
November 2nd, 2008, 12:39 PM
I read the other threads on the same topic and didn't find a solution or the same exact problem so am creating a new thread. New here so apologies if I transgress :)
I recently upgraded from a beautifully running Heron to a crippled Ibex :(
As soon as I upgraded and restarted the machine, after the orange logo screen, I get moved to a shell and a command prompt that says,
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
- Boot arguments (cat /proc/cmdline)
- Check rootdelay = (did the system wait too long?)
- Check root = (did the system wait for the right device?)
- Missing Modules (cat /proc/mod/(I can't remember what this was); le/ dev)
Alert! /dev/disk/by-uuid/[long hash string] does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
And then it says: BusyBox something or the other.
I am not very technical adept but have been doing decently with Ubuntu for the last year or so. Still scratching my head trying to figure this out.
Another thing I tried was booting with the .24-21 kernel instead of the new version. There I was able to boot, but into a low graphics low res Ubuntu :(
feeling sad and wanting to move back to Hardy unless someone can help me understand and diagnose this issue.
P.S. I tried the update, upgrade, dist-upgrade thing and that did not work either.
Sad,
Raghu.
I recently upgraded from a beautifully running Heron to a crippled Ibex :(
As soon as I upgraded and restarted the machine, after the orange logo screen, I get moved to a shell and a command prompt that says,
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
- Boot arguments (cat /proc/cmdline)
- Check rootdelay = (did the system wait too long?)
- Check root = (did the system wait for the right device?)
- Missing Modules (cat /proc/mod/(I can't remember what this was); le/ dev)
Alert! /dev/disk/by-uuid/[long hash string] does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
And then it says: BusyBox something or the other.
I am not very technical adept but have been doing decently with Ubuntu for the last year or so. Still scratching my head trying to figure this out.
Another thing I tried was booting with the .24-21 kernel instead of the new version. There I was able to boot, but into a low graphics low res Ubuntu :(
feeling sad and wanting to move back to Hardy unless someone can help me understand and diagnose this issue.
P.S. I tried the update, upgrade, dist-upgrade thing and that did not work either.
Sad,
Raghu.