Re: squeeze install: Gave up waiting for root devices

[Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>]

brownh wrote:
> I'm doing a fresh squeeze install from USB key, and it installs grub
> 0.97 and kernel 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem. A single SATA drive. Boot hangs
> with  
>
>      Waiting for root filesystem...
>      Gave up waiting for root device.
>      ...
>      
> I edited grub kernel line to add rootdelay=5, which didn't help.


That should be at lest 10 seconds or more, some think it should not be 
less than 15 seconds, 5 seconds is definitely to short.
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Jimmy Johnson

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