Rootfs could not be found, drops to shell. Works after reboot??

llawwehttam · 2012-01-26 11:01:31

Hiah folks,

just to clarify the machine is currently working and disk checks on the drives come back clean.

However I'm still a bit concerned.

When I first booted up this morning the system came up with the error (rootfs could not be found) then it dropped me to a shell to find it. Now my Dvd drive showed up in /dev/ but my hard drives did not.

On a reboot all drives were there and the system booted up normally.

I'm going to move backup day forward as a precaution, should I be worried or will this be a one off glitch?

Infos:

> uname -r                                               ~
3.2.1-2-ARCH

> cat /etc/fstab                                         ~
# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
devpts                 /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
shm                    /dev/shm      tmpfs     nodev,nosuid        0      0

UUID=582ada6f-a74f-45eb-a439-2db057ae61f3 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=abd82655-ca03-4ade-b578-c8206bb51873 / ext3 defaults 0 1
UUID=bc49e22e-6d17-4146-a9d6-28ce0dbac061 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
UUID=d8697b79-2624-4848-97b7-75039882fd56 /home ext3 defaults,user_xattr 0 1
UUID=4375a70f-e7c6-485c-b3d3-7c7be88ebe79 /data ext4 defaults 0 1

> fdisk -l                                               ~

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *          63      208844      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2          208845    16996769     8393962+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3        16996770   121869089    52436160   83  Linux
/dev/sda4       121869090   976768064   427449487+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000a81c5

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1              63  1953523711   976761824+  83  Linux

If you're wondering about the fstab, yes I am meaning to convert the ext3 partitions to ext4.

Last edited by llawwehttam (2012-01-26 11:04:57)

skunktrader · 2012-01-26 11:19:18

I don't think that this could be the cause of the problem, but I believe you should change the <pass> (last field) in each filesystem. Only root should be 1, the others should be changed to 2.

llawwehttam · 2012-01-26 11:23:54

skunktrader wrote:

I don't think that this could be the cause of the problem, but I believe you should change the <pass> (last field) in each filesystem. Only root should be 1, the others should be changed to 2.

Woops, thanks for spotting that. I must have done some copy-pasta there. Probably not what caused the error though.

Arch Linux

#1 2012-01-26 11:01:31

Rootfs could not be found, drops to shell. Works after reboot??

#2 2012-01-26 11:19:18

Re: Rootfs could not be found, drops to shell. Works after reboot??

#3 2012-01-26 11:23:54

Re: Rootfs could not be found, drops to shell. Works after reboot??

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