Re: grub2: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

[Simon Brandmair <sbrandmair@gmx.net>]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:20:02 +0200 Tom H wrote:
> 
> Please post the output of "blkid -c /dev/null" and the working grub2
> "menuentry ... { ... }".

blkid -c /dev/null:
/dev/sda2: LABEL="root" UUID="d8f9ae65-2e4f-4b20-aaac-9c5b6e7c6be7" 
TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/sda5: LABEL="var" UUID="1e30fe16-85e9-4c48-adda-0a5367e6d22d" 
TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/sda8: LABEL="boot" UUID="c9c772a6-75a5-4dbe-8bb8-2663db42e7f4" 
TYPE="ext2" 
/dev/mapper/swap: UUID="b83e7fa2-d2f7-48c3-ac46-ab92b7680b84" TYPE="swap" 

/boot/grub/grub.cfg:
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-20100812' --class debian --
class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
        insmod part_msdos
        insmod ext2
        set root='(hd0,msdos8)'
        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 
c9c772a6-75a5-4dbe-8bb8-2663db42e7f4
        echo    'Loading Linux 2.6.32-20100812 ...'
        linux   /vmlinuz-2.6.32-20100812 root=/dev/sda2 ro  quiet
        echo    'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
        initrd  /initrd.img-2.6.32-20100812
}

Simon