Re: problems booting
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:57:30PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> I'm building a server based on an Asus M2N-LR mobo, a 3Ware 9550SXU RAID
> card, 8 gigs of ram and a dual core Opteron. The hard drives are all
> sata Raptors with 4 of the 5 drives in a RAID 10 array. I'm running Etch.
>
> The problem I'm having is an intermittent one with booting. I will
> quite regularly get a message that the root file system cannot be found,
> as well as files such sbin/init and /etc/fstab. Here is the most
> specific error: mount: mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed.
> Just before those messages it says kinit is looking at sda5 for a resume
> image but cannot find it. I'm then dumped into a shell after the boot
> process fails.
Use either LABEL or UUID. This gets covered on this list at least every
couple of weeks.
Doug.
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