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Hi all,
I just installed Arch linux and thought it would a good idea to upgrade the kernel. I obviously forgot something important.
I did alter menu.lst like
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda ro vga=773
initrd /boot/initrd26.img
Startup ends with:
mount: Mounting /dev/root on /new_root failed: No such device or address
pivot_root: pivot_root: No such file or directory
umount: /initrd: No such file file or directory
umount: /initrd: No such file file or directory
Initial RAMDISK Loading Completed...
Freeing unused kernel memory: 248k freed
BusyBox v1.01 (2005.12.15-00:18+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
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Anyone who knows what I forgot?
Reinstallation is no problem, I was just getting started.
Cheers,
Jules
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Well, for sure root shouldn't be '/dev/hda' alone. You possibly had '/dev/hda1' on mind (or maybe some other partition).
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Well, for sure root shouldn't be '/dev/hda' alone. You possibly had '/dev/hda1' on mind (or maybe some other partition).
Agreed, lucke has the right of it. /dev/hda is the full disk, where /dev/hdaN {N=1..9} is the partition - root should be set to a specific partition, not the entire drive.
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i had the same problem installing on encrypted partition like explained on that doc on the wiki : http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Enc … Filesystem
The system arrive asking me for the filesystem password, and the the output is the same of this topic's forst message.
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Well, for sure root shouldn't be '/dev/hda' alone. You possibly had '/dev/hda1' on mind (or maybe some other partition).
You're right, it says:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda3 ro vga=773
initrd /boot/initrd26.img
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Oops, my brandnew laptop has a SATA drive.
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