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Le Limule

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Registered: 2011-08-19

Posts: 11

[solved] unable to boot to the root partition on my new (usb) HDD

hello,
i got a "unable to determine major/minor number of root device" error message when the system try to find the root partition (after it succefully boot on the boot partition).

Shuttle XPC SB65G2 (Mainboard FB65), usb HDD: Intenso INIC-1608L, Linux ctkarch 2.6.37-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT, grub legacy.
sdb1: /boot (ext2), sdb2: swap, sdb3: / (ext4), sdb4: /home (ext4)

of course i have a kernel compiled with usb in HOOKS in mkinitcpio.conf.

i tried to install with sdb1: / (ext4), sdb2: swap, sdb3: /home (ext4)
but i got another error: it can't find the file /dev/blabla (root partition) (after it succefully boot on the partition!).

at last i found the solution: i have to comment "root (hdx,x)" in menu.lst for grub legacy!:

# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
# root (hd1,0)
kernel ... by-uuid...
...

you don't need this line when you define by uuid, by label, or so...
it seems this line perturbs the behavior of the system.

if this can help...