9.10 boot error - Gave up waiting for root device - dev/disk/ does not exist

[jahst]

This error is horrible.
Shut down PC fine yesterday.
Showed up for work this morning and PC wouldnt boot.
I have 90 kids showing up for school in 20 minutes.. what to do.

No idea what is causing it, but this fixed it for me.


press "e" for edit at the boot menu

then navigate down to the root=uuid=#########

change to root=/dev/sda2

sda2 is my hard disk number and partition for my linux install.

Yours might be different.

I'll be rebooting several times tonight.. dont want this surprise ever again.



If using Grub 2
There is an option in /etc/default/grub file that says

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

Would changing this line fix it?

Still dont understand why it started fine yesterday, but not today.

This was a clean install of 9.10

** Edit **

I just remembered, I did an update yesterday which changed my /etc/default/grub file

The only thing it changed was this line

GRUB_TIMEOUT=10 -- to -- > GRUB_TIMEOUT="10"

Notice the ""s

Its the only thing that changed from yesterday to today.

I'll change it back after work and see if it makes a difference.