Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

[dave N <drn_temp2@rogers.com>]

Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:04:18AM -0500, dave N wrote:
>
> > I booted with Knoppix live and there is nothing in /var/log/messages, none of the logs appear to have changed since I last booted 2 days ago. I have not run fsck or anything else on this yet. 
> > 
> > Ideas?
>
> This is usually a root device misnaming (is this a word?). Try setting 
> up your fstab/menu.lst by uuid or labels.
>
> (If you have no idea what I'm talking about then I totally misjudged 
> your knowledge level. Please report back with any questions you might 
> have).
>
> Regards,
> Andrei

Thanks, I'll try this a little later using lables or devices (/dev/sda2)

 

I didn't know there were uuid's for devices, how do I find that for a partition?