General :: Kernel Cooking: No Root Device Found Sleeping Forever?

May 3, 2011

I've taken the kernel 2.6.33.3 and edited the .config file to take out most of the compatibility etc. that I will not be using. I'm run the makes and updated grub. I go to boot it runs through most of the way until I get the following:Quote:/bin/plymouthd: symbol lookup error: /bin/plymouthd: undefined symbol:ply_chara could not read byte from child: SuccessNo root device foundBoot has failed, sleeping forever.'m fairly new to Linux and still more of a dabbler. (Though this seemed more difficult than "Who is root" so I didn't put this in the newbie thread.)Any ideas for what might be wrong?I've tried looking in the config file from something that relates, but they have all been included (Y) in the module.

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Fedora :: Error - No Root Device Found. Boot Has Failed, Sleeping Forever

May 7, 2010

I have a Feadora 12 Live CD. It booted up fine on my 700 Mhz computer. I've since then put a new HDD in with which I intended to install Fedora on. But now i get this message

Quote:

No root device found. Boot has failed, sleeping forever

What does this mean? How do get the Live CD to boot?

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Feb 8, 2011

I downloaded fedora 14 64 image then created a bootable flash drive and put the image on the flash drive. I rebooted and tried booting from the flash drive and that's the message I received. What do I do?

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Jan 9, 2010

I've downloaded Fedora 12 and decided to try and install it on my old laptop which is currently running Ubuntu 9.10 with no problems.

When I boot from the live cd, it starts to load with the 3 bars on the bottom, one on top of the other, one is white, one is dark blue, the other is in between those colours in the spectrum somewhere....

Anyway, the load bars complete and "Fedora 12" turns white, then the following output populates:

mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_Snapshot_Cow' (<----- repeated a bunch of times) can't mount root filesystem Boot has failed, sleeping forever.

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Nov 20, 2009

I've created an LiveUSB disk with the USBcreator method in Windows 7.Now the the image is copied succesfully and the USB key is bootable.However when the boot window popsup and I select the verify & boot option, a graphical loading window comes up and right after that the system halts with the error message "Sleeping forever".What am I doing wrong? Or what is Fedora doing wrong with their LiveCD to USB media?I've did a forum search and the exact same issue is described in this thread[URL]

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Aug 11, 2011

I have a fresh computer with specs as such:

Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Black 500Gb 6Gbs Sata
Asus Sata DVD/CD Burner
Core i3 3.3GHz Sandy Bridge chipset
MSI P67A-GD55 Motherboard
Zotac GTS 450

I have a problem where the live cd gives this error message:

Boot failure, sleeping forever.

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Fedora :: ROOT Device Not Found?

Jan 26, 2011

i am really facing too much problems with fedora 14.yesterday due to low battery my lapi turned off n when i rebooted.

i got a error:-"NO root device found,boot failed...sleeping forever..

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Aug 14, 2010

Error : no root device found. booting has failed, sleeping forever.

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When I try to boot from Fedora 12 LiveCD system halts with the messages: "No root device found" "Boot has failed, sleeping forever"

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May 20, 2010

I have installed Fedora 12 on my HP laptop which has got a NVIDIA graphics card. I have got latest F12 kernel 2.6.32 as well as default kernel 2.6.31.I have installed Nvidia Proprietary Drivers and modified grub.conf file for 2.6.32 kernel saying blacklist nouvaue so that it can load NVIDIA drivers ...After that I am able to successfully boot into 2.6.32 kernel with Nvidia Proprietary Drivers.Everything seems to be fine .. But suddenly today when I tried to boot into F12 2.6.32 kernel I got the following error

Code:
No Root Device Found
Boot Failed, Sleeping Forever

[code]...

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Feb 19, 2011

I didn't like my partitioning layout so I have repartitioned and reformatted the drive. I have copied the backed up back onto the hdd, and i have installed grub successfully. Still, when I boot the machine, I get an error message: "No root device found. Boot has failed, sleeping forever.". When installing GRUB, it managed to found /boot/grub/stage1 without a problem, and I have installed it onto the MBR

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Fedora Installation :: F12 Upgrade - Boot Failure / No Root Device Found

Jun 1, 2010

I'm a long time Linux user. Finally got around to upgrading my Fedora 11 system to Fedora 12 by using the 'preupgrade' tool. The upgrade appeared to go well (downloaded packages, rebooted into installer, etc). However, now that the upgrade is complete, I'm unable to boot my system.

Here's my configuration:
/dev/sda (80Gb)
200Mb /boot partition (ext3)
52Gb / partition (ext4 - managed as logical volume)
2Gb swap partition (managed as logical volume)
20Gb /spare partition (ext3 - managed as logical volume) .....

All worked fine under Fedora 11 for the last few months. Grub now presents me with 'Fedora' and 'Windows XP' boot options. The /boot/grub/menu.lst file is essentially the same as it was for Fedora 11, except for the different kernel versions, etc. The boot sequence shows the Fedora bubble (??) and gets about 80% full when the screen goes black and the message displayed is:

No root device found
Boot has failed, sleeping forever
If I boot Windows, all works fine.

Am able to boot using a SystemRescueCD disk. The disks all look okay and I can mount/modify all partitions, etc. The grub menu.lst file read as follows (sorry, typed in, not copied):
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686.PAE)
root (hd0,0) .....

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Fedora Installation :: Install Ok - But Boot Failed - No Root Device Found

Nov 21, 2010

I have 2 Debian OS's and wanted to put Fedora next to it.

Install went ok, but after rebooting it says: "No root device found. Boot has failed, sleeping forever."

During install from the live CD I didn't "v" the boot (efi or something?) because I thought Grub would take care of everything.

Should I just reinstall again and choose the Fedora bootloader? Won't it mess up Grub?

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Fedora Installation :: Failure Screen Goes Black And Saying No Root Device Found?

Jan 14, 2011

I insert my F14 CD and booted the computer; I see the beginning of the installation and the the screen goes black and says:

No root device found.Sleeping forever. Boot failure.

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General :: Error "gave Up Waiting For Root Device`/ Can't Boot Kernel"

May 23, 2010

I needed to use CIFS for accessing a NTFS network share. I decided to include CIFS in the kernel and tried compiling and installing it. Now when I (try to) boot in my new kernel with CIFS support, I get the message: gave up looking for root device.

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Oct 31, 2010

We have a SuSE/SLES 9 server that boots from a fibre channel card, using volumes from a NetApp filer.

We previously had the server booting from the LUNs on the filer, but after some tinkering around with the fibre channel BIOS, we have the situation where the LUNS seem to be mounted, the OS boots, starts to initialise everything but then stalls, saying:

We have tried loads of combinations of settings in the BIOS and fibre channel BIOS without any success or any idea what may have caused the error.

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Debian Configuration :: Kernel Panic: Cannot Open Root Device

Jun 7, 2010

I am using a kernel with no initrd. I have had this kind of panic before. Usually it means that the kernel can access the hard drive because the driver for the controller or filesystem isn't built into the kernel.

The kernel is 2.6.34 vanilla.

My IDE controller is a Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 5513, and I built the driver for it into the kernel BLK_DEV_SIS5513=y

My /boot (hda1) is ext2, and everything else is ext3

EXT2_FS=y
EXT3_FS=y

My grub entry (hda2 is my root partition) kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2

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General :: Ubuntu 6.06: Mounting /root/sda1 /root Failed: No Such Device

Jan 22, 2010

An old machine in our office, running Ubuntu 6.06 all of a sudden will not boot up. I get the following info during boot:

Uncompressing Linux... Ok Booting the kernel
mount: Mounting /root/sda1 /root failed: No such device
mount: Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file or directory

[code]....

I haven't changed anything on the system as far as I'm aware, and I ran some HD diagnostics and everything seems fine. however when I try to mount the drive with the following command:

sudo mount -t ext3 -o rw /dev/hda1 /mnt

I get the following error:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad
superblock on /dev/sda1, missing code
page or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in
syslog - try dmesg | tail or so

I ran fdisk -l and it says the partition type is Linux. The output after running dmesg | tail :

[12207.483801] init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (101)
[12207.483809] EXT2-fs: corrupt root inode, run e2fsck
[12260.427078] init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (101)

[code]...

Update: After running e2fsck -p /dev/sda1, I get the following info:

/dev/sda1: clean, 142449 / 9584640 files, 5402711 / 19161520 blocks

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Fedora :: Booting: "no Root Device Found"?

Mar 10, 2011

have been fiddling! moved my partitions around (without using any cd by installing grub2 to boot to an iso of gparted).I moved:

swap,ntfs,ext4(fedora13)
to:
swap,ext4(Fedora13),ext4,ntfs,unformated

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Ubuntu Installation :: Grub2 Removing Old Kernel Versions Forever

Apr 14, 2010

Here's how to always have only the latest kernel version in your grub:
Code:
sudo gedit /etc/grub.d/10_linux

Find these lines:
Code:
list=`for i in /boot/vmlinu[xz]-* /vmlinu[xz]-* ; do
if grub_file_is_not_garbage "$i" ; then echo -n "$i " ; fi
done`

And change it with this:
Code:
for ver in /boot/vmlinu[xz]-* ; do
list="$ver"
done

Notice two differences.
1. There's no ` before "for" and after "done" keywords.
2. There's no list= before "for"

If you want to change the name of entry, scroll down to the end of the file and find last two occurrences of:
Code:
linux_entry
${OS} stands for Ubuntu and ${version} stands for your kernel version. I changed this into:
Code:
linux_entry "${OS} 9.10 Karmic Koala"

You can use your own imagination. If you want to have specific name for your Windows entry, in /boot/grub/grub.cfg copy everything between:
Code:
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
and
Code:
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
paste it in
/etc/grub.d/40_custom

Change the text between double quotes right after menu entry. (For example, my 40_custom looks like this now:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change the 'exec tail' line above.
menuentry "Windows 7" {
insmod ntfs
set root=(hd0,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set bcdc24dddc249424
chainloader +1
}
)
and make 30_os-prober not executable:
Code:
sudo chmod -x 30_os-prober

If you want to remove recovery mode entry, just uncomment this line in /etc/default/grub:
Code:
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY="true"
PS Don't forget to run
Code:
sudo update-grub
After you finish editing everything! And check in /boot/grub/grub.cfg if everything is ok!

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General :: Can't Find Boot Device - Error "Unable To Determine Major/minor Number Of Root Device"

Mar 17, 2011

I just compiled my first own kernel (I'm using Arch Linux), following the tutorial on the german site. Now I tried to boot it, I ended up failing with this message: Code: Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/sda1 ... Root device '/dev/sda1' doesn't exist, Attempting to create it. ERROR: Unable to determine major/minor number of root device '/dev/sda1' Here is the important part of my menu.lst:

[Code]....

I simply copy&pasted the Arch-entry, i.e. I also had the disk by uuid there. The failure message was the same, just the root device name was the different name Also, at first I did not have the initrd line in my menu.lst (as written in my tutorial that I may not need it). In this case I had this error message:

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Mar 2, 2011

i attach microsoft fingerprint reader but in linux os when i compile my program dev : not device found error occurethis is usb device if i want to load driver module then what to do
i use dpfc lib

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General :: Edac Error - Device Not Found (E7xxx)

Jan 14, 2011

Hey, im new to linux but i like it very much. recently built decent computer and put Mint 10 on it. every thing works fine but get a strange message after I install the driver for nvidia video card. Message is an edac error "device not found" E7xxx.? Not sure of any of it. System still works fine. Graphics are working great. Also the linux mint boot screen changed to some generic looking screen that says Linux Mint 10 in an old dot matrix type format.

Here's what I have:
Tyan i7501 s2735
(2) 2.4 Xeon cpu's
320 gb seagate hd
2gb ram
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General :: Kernel Panic - Not Syncing - No Init Found - Try Passing Init - Option To Kernel

Apr 19, 2011

Im am building a Linux distro. It will be very tiny and fast.

I only have a minimal linuxkernel (bzImage) who is 1,2 mb big. And then I have Busybox who is 174,6 kb big.

The commands in busybox is: cd, ls, mkdir, rmdir, wget, httpd, clear, rm, poweroff, halt, reboot, fdisk, mount, umount, free, and cp.

When I compiled the kernel i use initramfs/initrd function and point it to a folder where initrd/initramfs source is.

The kernel works OK with others initramfs/initrd files. But not with my own.

Quote:

Here is how the end of the kernelcomplie look like.

Quote:

Here is my init file who is the initrd/initramfs source.

Quote:

The initramfs folder contains "bin" (folder) and "init" a file. No more.

The problem is that the kernel cannot find/read init file.

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General :: How To Change Root Device

May 28, 2011

I want to be able to change the root device, say from sda to sdb, so that I am able to remove sda. I don't believe this is possible with chroot, as I am changing the root folder to a mount point that exists on sda (sdb is not on fstab), so removing it would lock up the system.

Any thoughts how I can do this?

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Jan 31, 2011

Not rly but i recently installed ubuntu desktop edition on my friends laptop 4 install tries later and boom we have lift off, all engines are a go. 3 days later my friend tells me his laptop is getting so hot he can cook his egg rolls on it (Hes korean what do you expect) and every 10 or so minutes it freezes.

1. Could this be because i used the wrong remix of ubuntu (Dekstop and not netbook)
2. Is there a tweak or thing i can do to resolve this
3. FYI it was not this hot with winblows
4. Why am i the only one without major issues ever with ubuntu

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Feb 8, 2011

I am having redhat 5 linux machine running on my windwos x in vmware workstation. Today i was installing oracle software in redhat 5 after editing the bash profile for the oracle user i got the following messages

su - oracle
password:*****
-bash: [oracle: command not found

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Jul 6, 2011

NSA's Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 recommands restricting device ownership to root only.

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Mar 4, 2011

I need to change a filename but when I boot up I get the message root device is read-only. Is there a way of changing this so that I can change the filename. I have a Mac Pro running Leopard OSX. The graphics card an NVIDIA 7500GT or driver has failed. It was suggested elsewhere that I change the relevant kext files to filename.kext.old, which I did, now when I try to boot start in OSX I get a message in various languages telling me to restart. I have tried booting in safe mode and from original Installation CD. In Safe Mode I get the same multi language splash screen, from CD I still have the graphic card problem, screen freezes and artifacts appear. So I boot up straight into CLI by holding down CMD-S hoping to be able to change filenames back but it says device read-only.

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Apr 24, 2011

I am trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 from a USB flash memory stick. It works fine until around 95%, where I get the following warning/error:

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I click OK and the installer seems to finish nicely, except the terminal throws several errors along these lines (see photo):

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I tried also with 10.04 LTS, the difference being that the install warning appears two or three times instead of once. Some results from googling (Ubuntu Forums, Ubiquity bug) suggest unchecking the initial update options. I am going to try this but I'm not sure if I'll be able to get the boot loader right (there seemed to be problems with this).

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