Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

[Per Tunedal Debian <debian@tunedal.nu>]

Florian Kulzer skrev:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:39:11 -0500, dave N wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Question: In the menu.lst grub file, how would I use
>> the label assignment in the line:
>>
>>  kernel  /vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-686 root=/dev/sdc2 ro
> 
> I think this should be OK:
> 
> kernel  /vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-686 root=LABEL=your_root_label ro
> 
> I have
> 
> # kopt=root=LABEL=my_root_label ro 
> 
> in my menu.lst and this works for all the auto-generated entries.
> 
Thanks for this very useful advice! I had the same problem and managed
to log in simply by entering "e" at the GRUB-menu for editing the
failing line. Afterwords I put a label on the partition with e2label and
 changed the reference in menu.lst
It works like a charm!
Per Tunedal