Debian :: Waiting For Root - Cannot Mount Volume
Jun 23, 2010
Not sure how this came about but the box rebooted itself for some reason and refused to get past this stage. I went into grub and changed hde1 to hda1 but that did nothing. The disk is unreadable by another Debian box, it gives the error "Cannot mount volume". Also unreadable in Windows via programs such as ext2toifs or Linux Reader.
If I boot via the CD and bring up the recovery console I can browse to my data, seems all intact but cant mount a network share to move it off, also tried making a .tar of all my stuff and FTPd' it across but I only received a massive corrupted file. How to get my stuff of this drive or ideally make it boot?
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Dec 9, 2010
I installed Debain Lenny as a dual boot with ubuntu 10.10. Chose not to install Grub legacy in the mbr or in any partition because I thought grub2 could handle it. All went well, updated grub2 in ubuntu and it found Debian, but when I try to boot into Debain it hangs at - waiting for root filesystem. I've searched, but can't fathom why this is happening, much less how to fix it without just reinstalling it.
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Jun 20, 2011
I've installed squeeze and wheezy on an old Toshiba Satellite 210 CS laptop with 48MB RAM and a 20GB IDE harddrive.Grub2 won't boot at all and stops with a "error: cannot allocate real mode pages". The solution to that is to use the grub-legacy package.The boot then fails with "waiting for root device" and drops to an initramfs shell.
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May 5, 2011
How do I configure my Debian installation to mount external USB drives to mount points based on the volume names of the drives? For instance, if I have a thumb drive with the volume name of "SWORDFISH," how do I have Linux mount it at /media/SWORDFISH? I'm aware that this can be setup in FSTAB, but that requires that I know the UUID of the device beforehand and that I take the time to set each external device up in FSTAB first. That does nothing for me when I have a thumb drive that has never been plugged into my computer before.
This seems to be setup by default in Ubuntu/Kubuntu, but is not working for me with a fresh installation of Debian Squeeze and KDE4. I've spent the past 2 hours Googling for a solution and have turned up nothing. UPDATE: My results are inconsistent. Sometimes Debian mounts devices to mount points based on the volume names, and other times it gives them generic mount points (e.g. /media/usb1).
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Feb 9, 2010
I try tou Mount NTFS partition, and i i have this error massage:
"Cannot mount volume. Invalid Mount option when attempting to mount the volume"
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Jul 20, 2010
I have installed debian recently and not able to mount any other volume except FileSystem. It says -You are not privileged to mount this volume.I have tried everything including raising the permissions of the user and changing the group to root but in vain.??
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May 27, 2011
I am running wheezy + xfce. When I attempt to mount any external volume in Thunar, I get a message saying "Unable to mount-- not authorized." This is problem #1. A bigger problem that I think is related is my wireless. Logged in as a normal user, I cannot connect to any wireless networks using network-manager. My wireless card is functional and I can see all the networks around me, but when I click on one to connect, nothing happens. No password prompt, nothing. Strangely, when I log in as root, wireless works flawlessly. I am a member of the netdev group.
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Jul 27, 2011
When I try to open my flash stick's folder:
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so
Here are some, probably, useful information:
root@debian:/home/dagrevis# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 2004 MB, 2004877312 bytes
129 heads, 32 sectors/track, 948 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4128 * 512 = 2113536 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
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On Windows it works... only problem - the Windows don't work as I want.
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Feb 19, 2016
i can not enter to my partition when i try that thing , i got this message:
1- Invalid mount option when attempting to mount the volume.
2 - You are not privileged to mount this volume.
first message it is about entering (( Windows OS partition )) (( NTFS ))
second message it is about entering other partiton with (( FAT32 ))
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Sep 15, 2010
I just did the minimal install with XFCE and Lenny. Doing a lot of reading of documentation and I'm trying to grab some errors and save to my usb drive, a 257M lexar (old). Anyway, I'm getting the "failed to mount" msg. Also, I tried to install texmacs and wxmaxima last night, but it somehow failed and now apt-get will not let me install anything.
I get the error:
Not using lock for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock dpkg was interrupted - run dpkg --configure -a
When I run dpkg, i get this error:
unable to access dpkg status area: read only file system
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Apr 6, 2010
I have successfully mounted my Win7 volume and my external hard drives NTFS volume as well. However, after modifying the fstab I seem to only be getting the win7 volume to auto-mount. Below is the contents of my fstab. /dev/sdf3 is not mounting. Again, it works no problem if I manually mount it.
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
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May 16, 2011
how to get thunar with xfce 4.6 to mount external hard drives. Thunar with xfce 4.8 uses udisk, and all external and internal hard disks show up in the sidebar.With thunar in debian squeeze, though, no internal or external hard drives show up.
I can live without internal hard drives showing up, but I'd like to be able to mount my eSATA drive automatically. So far I've been completely unsuccessful in getting an entry to show up in thunar (like when a usb flash disk or cd is inserted), so I've added an entry to fstab:
LABEL=LIBRARY /home/library ext4 noauto,defaults,users And that doesn't seem to do anything. With and without the fstab line, I get a popup saying something like "Unable to mount volume "LIBRARY". You do not have priviliges to mount LIBRARY."
Everything else seems to mount fine. It's just that thunar/hal/whatever thinks that my eSATA drive is an "internal" hard drive and so doesn't treat it as removable.ALL of my drives, internal and eSATA, show up in the gtk "places" menu that is used in file-roller, iceweasel, etc. If I could find a way to get thunar to do this (like it can wtih xfce 4.8 and udisks) that would be GREAT.
EDIT: I also wanted to add that they show up in pcmanfm, but it also tells me "Not authorized" when I try to mount them.
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Jul 11, 2010
When I boot off of Debian Kernel 2.6.26-2-686. This is what happens. It stops at attached scsi generic sg5 type 0 After 4 or 5 minutes it comes back and says.
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) Check Root= (did the system wait for the right device) Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev Alert /dev/sdd8 does not exist dropping to shell /bin /sh: can't access tty; job control turned off If I boot off Debian Kernel 2.6.26-2-686 (single user mode) Then use Control-D it boots fine.
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Jan 9, 2010
I installed ubuntu on my MacBook Pro, and now I get the infamous "still waiting for root device" when booting mac os x. I couldn't find any solutions that worked (macbook pros don't have a BIOS, or any drives that are easily removable). Anyway, so I have ubuntu working, and I need some files from OS X before I would consider reinstalling, etc. So I mounted the drive, went to users, etc. and it says that "I don't have the permissions necessary to view the contents of ****".
I did chmod 777 /media/os x/Users/* but that led to "Could not access: No such file or directory" (there's a space between os and x, I think it counts it as two commands or something and I can't rename the drive). Any way to give myself the permissions to access my files, or maybe just to copy over the whole hard drive to my main computer, or maybe somehow solve the "still waiting for root device".
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Oct 18, 2010
this is my first setup of ubuntu. And I�m quite familar to Linux allthoug it�s been a while since my last setup. Anyway, my system is brand new and consist of the following parts:
AMD Athlon X2 240e on MSI 880GMA-E45 (SB850)
4GB RAM (DDR3)
All drives connected by SATA using onboard SB850 ordered by:
1 LG BluRay optical drive
2 WD Caviar Green WD10EARS 1TB
3 WD Caviar Green WD20EARS 2TB
4 WD Caviar Green WD20EARS 2TB
5 WD Caviar Green WD20EARS 2TB
6 WD Caviar Green WD15EARS 1,5TB
I set the SATA controller to AHCI because I want to set up a software raid (level 5) on the three 2TB-disks. The first disk (1TB) should be the ubuntu boot disk (no raid). The last one (1,5TB) is currently not connected - it will be added later. First I struggled booting the ubuntu server 10.10-CD (x64) from the bluray drive - after succesfull starting the setup procedure it told me that it cannot access the drive. It seems that drivers are missing. No problem - I connected an usb dvd drive to the system and gave it a try.
The boot order was set to usb-dvd, then bluray, then the first harddisk (1TB). Setup seems to run fine using the usb dvd drive. I�ve chosen the first disk (shown as /dev/sda) for the installation. It was automatically configured as one big root-partition and a small swap-partition. Grub was installed on the MBR of the first disk. But after restart GRUB tells me "Gave up waiting for root device" and "ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/whatever does not exist. Dropping to a shell!". Obviously the boot loader cannot find (or access) the volume containing the kernel.
I made some research and found some other people complaining about some mixup of hdaX and sdaX devices on SATA devices - but these statements where from 2007. Another point is that the USB optical drive is my boot device while the installation runs, but not afterwards - does this matter? I also tried installing Ubuntu server 10.04, but is behaves the same. Please keep in mind that the goal is to have ubunto server 64bit running on this system - that�s it. No dual boot is needed. And there is no data on any disk that should be taken care. It�s a very new system. Where should I start to fix this issue? What�s wrong with the current linux boot loader using SATA disks connected to SB850 SATA controller?
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Nov 29, 2010
I was upgrading online through my android phone's easytether app. My phone rang, and I was bounced offline. When I came back the upgrade did not resume, and when I tried to start over, dpkg and whatever was busy so I closed all my windows and tried to reboot. This is where I ended up: Here is a screenshot:
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Feb 7, 2009
I did an installation of Ubuntu 8.1 on my laptop. I ran the live CD first to check that everything was ok and got no problems. But when I try to boot I get this error:
Boot from (hd0,0) ext3 e194- long number
Gave up waiting for root device.
Alert /dev/disk/by-vvid/e194- long number
I tried a different hard drive with the same results. So I installed XP and everything worked fine. This makes me believe that all of the hardware is ok and I have some config screwy.
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May 4, 2010
recently attempted to upgrade to Lucid Lynx but it's not booting up. it just shows "Gave up waiting for root device" and drops to BusyBox. waiting doesn't do anything. i see the GRUB options but none of the 3 10.04 LTS's boot up. i've read a number of threads but i don't think my Ubuntu drive is being read. i say this 'cause cat/proc/partitions doesn't list my Ubuntu drive/partition. Also when booting up in the Live CD, GParted only lists the Windows partition. neither does sudo fdisk -l.
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Jun 24, 2010
I got the message "Gave up waiting for root device after I rebooted an Ubuntu 10.04 system I thought I restored by unpacking a tar.gz at the base of the directory tree I made for backup purposes.
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Jul 23, 2010
I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 and booted to the desktop 2 times. Both times the desktop was so big I could not see any of the icons. The third time and every time I tried to boot again I am getting the following Text Screen warning. "Gave up waiting for root device". I expect I have two different problems, but I can not work on the desktop being to big until I can get this system to boot again.
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Apr 20, 2011
About a week ago I changed the hard disk setup of my desktop PC. I installed a new SSD and changed the set-up of my old hard disks. Since I installed the SSD I have not been able to boot Ubuntu from it. When I reboot and chose Ubuntu at the grub menu then it ends with the following error: 'Gave up waiting for root device' and '/dev/disk/by-uuid/2bef4d2f-db0e-44b3-9e85-2065fad6f4a0 does not exist. Dropping to Shell!'
I have made a description of my current set-up and the changes made last week and I have copied the output from boot_info_script as well. Old setup:
Asus P5Q-Pro mainboard 3x Samsung Spinpoint F1 750GB with 2 drives in a (fake)raid 0 setup using Intel Matrix Raid Storage from the ICH10R chipset with 4 partitions: a system partition for Windows 7, a system partition for Ubuntu, a data storage partition for Windows and a linux swap partition 1 drive not in a raid array and split in 2 partitions: 1 ext4 partition used for my /home folder (since the Ubuntu system partition was not intented to be used to store documents) 1 ntfs partition used to backup documents, pictures/photo's and music from the Windows data partition on the raid array Since release 10.04 Ubuntu would install properly on the raid array. Before release 10 I had to use the alternate cd installation and install grub manually to avoid messing up the boot process.
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Apr 5, 2010
I've installed Ubuntu 9.10 server on old hardware. The boot seems to have a problem. See the screenshot attached. When I see that and type "exit" the normal login is displayed. There was nothing special about the install. Anyone has an idea how to fix it?
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Aug 16, 2010
I had this problem after my mainboard crashed (my clumsiness) and I replaced my dual-core AMD with a Triple-core and a MSI mainboard deal from a dealer clearencing. Before my MBR was on my 80 gig IDE but I dropped it and put my SATA 320gig in its place and did a fresh install of Lucid. Preparing a machine for a friend that wanted Mepis on her computer with WindowsXP in VirtualBox I could not compile the vbox kernel and in the mepislovers forum I was instructed to run sudo m-a and to then compile the kernel. This worked perfectly.
This morning (01:57 Texas time) after trying a few solution suggestions from the forum here I said, what the snot and I typed sudo m-a in the terminal and was instructed to download the module-assistant with the useual 'apt-get install module-assistant. After the install I ran the sudo m-a and then with my arrow keys selected the second option and hit enter. As soon as it finished I used my down arrow and selected the third option and entered it. After that I selected exit and have been cold starting my machine without the aggravation.
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Jun 6, 2010
I created a encrypted volume on top of software raid1. These are my steps:
1. Create logical partition on sda
2. Create logical partition on sdb (same size)
3. Change type to partition to 'fd' for both partitions
4. Check that the both partitions are same size and type
fdisk -l /dev/sda && fdisk -l /dev/sdb
5. partprobe
6. Make sure there are no remains from previous RAID installations on /dev/sdb by running:
mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sda6
mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdb6
7. mdadm --create /dev/md4 --level=1 --raid-disks=2 /dev/sda6 /dev/sdb6
8. watch cat /proc/mdstat
9. update mdadm.conf
mdadm --examine --scan | grep mdx >> /etc/mdadm.conf
10. Load twofish module
[root@localhost ~]# modprobe twofish
11. # cryptsetup -y -c twofish-cbc-essiv:sha256 create ftdata /dev/md4
Enter passphrase:
Verify passphrase:
12. mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 -R stride=8 /dev/mapper/ftdata
13. mkdir /ftdata
14. Mount the encrypted volume: mount -O noatime /dev/mapper/ftdata /ftdata
It mounts successfully this first time. When I cd /ftdata, I can see the lost+found dir
Now, I unmount the volume
cd ~
Code:
umount /ftdata
cryptsetup remove ftdata
And now, if I try to setup my encrypted volume like this:
Code:
[root@localhost ~]# cryptsetup create ftdata /dev/md4
Enter passphrase:
mount -O noatime /dev/mapper/ftdata /ftdata
I get this error:
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
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Jun 6, 2010
I created a encrypted volume on top of software raid1. These are my steps:
1. Create logical partition on sda
2. Create logical partition on sdb (same size)
3. Change type to partition to 'fd' for both partitions
4. Check that the both partitions are same size and type fdisk -l /dev/sda && fdisk -l /dev/sdb
5. partprobe
6. Make sure there are no remains from previous RAID installations on /dev/sdb by running: mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sda6 mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdb6
7. mdadm --create /dev/md4 --level=1 --raid-disks=2 /dev/sda6 /dev/sdb6
8. watch cat /proc/mdstat
9. update mdadm.conf mdadm --examine --scan | grep mdx >> /etc/mdadm.conf
10. Load twofish module [root@localhost ~]# modprobe twofish
11. # cryptsetup -y -c twofish-cbc-essiv:sha256 create ftdata /dev/md4 Enter passphrase: Verify passphrase:
12. mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 -R stride=8 /dev/mapper/ftdata
13. mkdir /ftdata
14. Mount the encrypted volume:
mount -O noatime /dev/mapper/ftdata /ftdata
It mounts successfully this first time. When I cd /ftdata, I can see the lost+found dir
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So why is it that I can't mount my encrypted volume after the first time? I am giving the correct password when it asks to.
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May 24, 2010
When I was upgrading my system (ubuntu server edition) today from 8.10 to 10.04 (of course in small steps: upgrade version after version) everything seemed running smoothly. But when I restarted it, it gave an error message: Gave up waiting on root device. Screenshot of error and grub menu attached. I've read some information about it and applied the possible workaround given here: [URL]. My system is very old and so is the HDD: it uses an IDE connector. Typing 'exit' doesn't work either.
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Feb 8, 2011
I have been trying to update my server from 6.06 server to 10.04 server. My attempts have been complicated by versions later than 6.06 not being able to properly read my CD-ROM. I used the 'do-release-upgrade' mechanism to upgrade to from 6.06 to 8.04 and then to 10.04. 8.04 loaded OK, but 10.04 fails to boot with the surprisingly common "Gave up waiting for root device" error. It stops at the built-in shell prompt. If I exit from the shell, it seems to boot up normally.
I have verified that the boot partition is /dev/sda1 and the UUID for the partition is correct. My system is an older IBM eServer xSeries 350 with quad 700MHz XEON processors and a 36GB SCSI drive. This system properly installed from the 6.06 CD and boots under this version without problems. So I have some questions. Only the first one needs an answer.
1. What do I need to do to get my system to boot properly?
2. Why was this software released with this error?
3. Why wasn't the faulty loader pulled from the release until it was fixed?
4. Is it possible to revert to the 6.06 loader, which works fine?
5. Why doesn't the loader attempt to try something else that should work instead of just giving up?
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Jun 21, 2010
ubuntu 9.10 is not booting shows Gave up waiting for root device.", (initramfs). how to boot normally from this problem. The problem is coming from installed system.
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Jun 30, 2010
I have two internal hard drives.I just installed Debian Lenny in the smaller 80GB. But when I try to access the other hard drive it shows:
"Invalid mount option when attempting to mount the volume"
info:
-The 80GB is on dual boot with Windows 7 and Debian Lenny.
-The 500GB secondary hard drive is NTFS filesystem.
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Nov 30, 2010
just installed ubuntu 10.10 on my external usb hdd from my 8gb flash drive doing this on a laptop, my primary hdd (internal) is running windows (230gb of 250gb used) so i got an external hdd (2tb) and I decided to install ubuntu on it
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