Arch Linux

jollyjoice

Member

From: The United Kingdom.

Registered: 2007-10-01

Posts: 2

Root device not created on boot.

When booting i get the following error;

Error: unable to create/detect root device.

I am then dropped to a shell.

This is just after the hook are run / during hook running. Only three of which are run, udev, keymap and filesystem. Others, including sata, are in the initrd file but are not run.

The following is the grub entry for arch.

title Arach Linux x86
        root (hd0,4)
        kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda6 vga=791 noapic
        initrd /kernel26.img

Any help would be appreciated,
Christopher

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,958

Re: Root device not created on boot.

Sounds like the kernel image was not genereated correctly.

Try booting the fallback kernel :

title Arch x86 fallback
        root (hd0,4)
        kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda6 vga=791 noapic
        initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

check /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and regenerate the kernel image with mkinitcpio -g /boot/kernel26.img .

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jollyjoice

Member

From: The United Kingdom.

Registered: 2007-10-01

Posts: 2

Re: Root device not created on boot.

thanks, that works if I set "rw" after the root declaration, otherwise it doesn't mount it read-write. It tries to mount ro during boot, but fails for some reason.