Re: boot failure

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Tue 24 Jan 2012 at 13:03:19 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:

> I had yesterday a very big boot problem:
>  after choosing any linux entry in the grub boot menu,
>  I got failure messages, and was dropped to a busybox shell

Did these entries boot prior to yesterday?

>  I sent a post 1 hour ago with an attachment showing these messages
>  but it didn't reach the list (I thought that small attached files
>  were allowed, but it seems I was wrong)

My understanding is that mails with attachments are not blocked. You
could try again in your next mail by attaching your grub.cfg.

>  So, I extracted the more important part.
>  ===============================================================
>    [    3.903186] scsi_mod: '20a' invalid for parameter 'inq_timeout'
>    done
>    Gave up waiting for root device.  Common problems:
>     - Boot args ...
>       - check rootdelay=
>       - check root=
>     - Missing modules...
>    ALERT /dev/disk/by-uuid/8f0abe00....... does not exist.
>    Dropping to a shell

At the GRUB menu get a shell with 'c'. Type 'ls -l'. Does GRUB see the
disk with UUID 8f0abe00....... ?