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My fault entirely, I rebooted after tbe linux kernel update showed some errors. Now I can't boot into my system.
I am dropped to a recovery shell - [ramfs/]#
Any help to boot back into my system appreciated.
ERROR: Unable to determine major/minor number of root device.
Last edited by cyrus (2012-01-20 07:35:30)
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output from /boot/grub/menu.lst
Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS
#
# Linux Grub
# -------------------------
# /dev/fd0 (fd0)
# /dev/sda (hd0)
# /dev/sdb2 (hd1,1)
# /dev/sda3 (hd0,2) <====================== READ THIS !!!
output from command #cfdisk
cfdisk (util-linux 2.20.1)
Disk Drive: /dev/sda
Size: 320072933376 bytes, 320.0 GB
Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 38913Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
sda2 Primary ntfs [Packard Bell] 217945.25
sda1 Boot Primary ntfs [SYSTEM RESERVED] 115.16
sda3 Primary ext2 [linuxboot] 98.71 <=========== READ THIS !!!
sda5 Logical crypto_LUKS 24996.63
sda6 NC Logical reiserfs 76916.86 *
Logical Free Space 0.36 *
output from /boot/grub/menu.lst "the boot /dir pointer"
# (1) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,2) <============= READ THIS !!!!
kernel /vmlinuz-linux cryptdevice=/dev/sda5:root root=/dev/mapper/root ro vga=0x034b
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
you are stating "ERROR: Unable to determine major/minor number of root device"
your boot can't find you're root (=boot) partition
Last edited by gregor (2012-01-19 20:13:07)
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I only have Arch on my drive that has always booted from (hda0,0)
What do I type from the recovery shell [ramfs/]# to boot into my system and rectify the update error?
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I booted into my system with SystemRescueCd and used the boot option to boot into an existing Linux OS.
After that I reinstalled linux that generated a success this time. Subsequently I was able to boot correctly.
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