Re: problems booting

[Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net>]

Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>   
Well, that was a huge help.  You cut out the part of the message where I 
say I don't really understand the rules syntax and just give me 
variables.  It doesn't do a whole lot for me.  If I understood the 
syntax I'd have already written my own rules and wouldn't have asked for 
help here. 

And, btw, I have 81,000+ messages from this list on my machine going 
back more than a year.  If my reading of them had helped me understand 
this well enough to write my own rules I'd have done it. 

Guess I'll just look for help elsewhere.