Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

From: Per Tunedal Debian <debian(at)tunedal.nu>
Date: Thu Jan 10 2008 - 08:46:34 EST

Florian Kulzer skrev:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:39:11 -0500, dave N wrote:
>
> [...]
>

>> Question: In the menu.lst grub file, how would I use
>> the label assignment in the line:
>>
>>  kernel  /vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-686 root=/dev/sdc2 ro

>
> I think this should be OK:
>
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-686 root=LABEL=your_root_label ro
>
> I have
>
> # kopt=root=LABEL=my_root_label ro
>
> in my menu.lst and this works for all the auto-generated entries.
>

Thanks for this very useful advice! I had the same problem and managed to log in simply by entering "e" at the GRUB-menu for editing the failing line. Afterwords I put a label on the partition with e2label and  changed the reference in menu.lst
It works like a charm!
Per Tunedal

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