I'm trying to install the Aleph One game engine on Ubuntu 11.04. It came as a .tar.gz file so I tried the standard procedure, but when I tried to use the make command, it gave an error near the end.Here is the full output.
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/alex/Downloads/AlephOne-20051119'
Making all in Source_Files[code]....
I downloaded opensuse from opensuse.org(the DVD), and when I tried to install it gave me an error message. When I saw the file on the mirror, it was 4.7 G, but when I burned it, I did notice it was only 4.2 Gs.
I tried another download and again it was only 4.2 Gs, how or where can I obtain a working installable DVD of OpenSuse?
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?
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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The system is an old AMD Duron 650MHz that was dug out of the garbage, trying to set it up as a light duty server. I installed ubuntu 10.04 with no errors or troubles during the install, however whenever the system is booted it sits at a cursor for about a minute then goes into busybox giving the error "Gave up waiting on root device." and says that the hard drive does not excist. If I sit at busybox for about another minute and type exit it then boots ubuntu 10.04 with no errors or issues.
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cd /usr/src/
apt-get source postfix
wget http://vda.sourceforge.net/VDA/postf...da-ng.patch.gz{code]....
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: tail of debian/changelog gave error exit status 1
I have searched hi and low and still can't work out how to resolve this.
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.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhen 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.
I'm trying to install Aleph One on a 64 bit install of ubuntu, 9.10. I've got all the other errors worked out but it says I need boost/bind. I try to install that and I get these errors:
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failed gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.4.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/object/function_doc_signature.o...
skipped <pbin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.4.1/release/link-static/threading-multi>libboost_python.a(clean) for lack of <pbin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.4.1/release/link-static/threading-multi>numeric.o...
skipped <pbin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.4.1/release/link-static/threading-multi>libboost_python.a for lack of <pbin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.4.1/release/link-static/threading-multi>numeric.o...
skipped <pstage/lib>libboost_python.a for lack of <pbin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.4.1/release/link-static/threading-multi>libboost_python.a...
failed updating 58 targets...
skipped 12 targets...
I would love to have Aleph One and the scenarios running on my laptop!
If I have a hard-disk with Ubuntu fully installed on it and I want to - all of a sudden - use Windows XP, is it mandatory that I firstly format the hard-disk first? So far, I have used two versions of Windows XP; one of them is from a few years before the other. Both copies of Windows XP when in start-up from booting from CD are causing errors. One of them is a BSOD error (0x0000007B) and the next Windows CD is stopping and giving me an error with setupdd.sys (error code 4). Is it required that the hard-disk is formatted before you even put a Windows boot CD in?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI was trying to installed skype and i am getting a error that reads: Error: Wrong architecture 'i386' has any one installed skype before?
View 3 Replies View Relatedthis 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?
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.
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.
View 9 Replies View RelatedThe case is that I've got 2 harddisks. On the one windows xp(slave) - and on the other one ubuntu (master). During the boot I get these errors...
"Gave up waiting for boot device"
"Boot args(cat /proc/cmdline)"
"Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; 1s , dev)"
"/dev/disk/by-uuid/f96603ce - does not exist"
These problems occured because of this:
After using ubuntu I tried to reset my bios, because else it couldn't have found the disk with xp. And I didn't disconnect the disk with xp while resetting the bios. And now the system can't find the disk with xp any more when booting. Is there a way to finding the disk..? And I'm in doubt about IF I've resetted the bios at all. I miss a manual for PCCHIPS M851. May be it can take 20 minutes for the bios to be resetted? The shop where I bought the motherboard doesn't exist any more... and don't know the manufacturer. Could I damage the motherboard if I tried rebooting lots of times to get it work?
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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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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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?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI 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.
i tried to install gcc-4.5.0 on opensuse 11.2 I gave ./configure but it gave the error couldn't find the c compiler.. the message was
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I am having a problem installing SLES11 on a new server. It goes fine through the setup until it gets to GRUB, it gets me the following error message: Error occurred while installing GRUB
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I cant continue the installation without this
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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View 2 Replies View RelatedI thought of leaving a comment below the story, but figured why bother. The main complaint appears to be about the appearance of the desktop, and the graphical installer "feels old." Then he goes on to recommend Trisquel instead as a "better Debian-based distribution" than Debian.
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI am running Ubuntu 10.10. After the most recent major upgrade I started getting the above message when booting with the default kernel, Linux 2.6.35.30 Generic. But if I drop back to Linux 2.6.35.28 Generic then everything works fine. I have plenty of free memory and none of the previous posts seem to apply to this problem. I downloaded and ran the boot info script and here are the results:
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I had to reinstall 10.04 because I got an error, waiting for root device. And I figured I knew why I got this error: I changed my xconf.cfg (or whatever the file is in /etc/x11/) -- So this time I downloaded the 64 bit, because I have a 64 bit computer, so though, might as well get it! I've narrowed the problem down to this:
After I install nvidia settings (the x server or whatever?) And change my view to TwinView (I have my laptop monitor and an external monitor), and save the config file, this happens. I will do some more testing, but here is the whole error message: Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
- Check rootdelay= (did the system not wait long enough?)
- Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?
- Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/bcb49367-8554-4116-8e4d2b39d92415cf does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu11) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
Recently setup Ubuntu Server 10.10 on an old Dell Poweredge 2650. It seemed to be working perfectly until I did my first reboot. I tried changing the 'root' reference on the linux line at the grub menu with no luck. I suspect the problem is something else but I have no clue.
So far the behavior seems completely consistent. If I physically power the machine down and start it back up everything works perfectly. However, if I do a sudo reboot now I'll end up at the initramfs prompt. I'm not comfortable setting up my dev environment on this box until I'm sure it will be stable. In case it matters the machine is running a single scsi drive and doesn't have a raid controller.
I've been trying to install the latest version of Emacs from source but I'm running into a trouble. The commands "./configure" and "make" work just fine. However, when I run "sudo checkinstall" I get a message saying that makeinfo is missing:
Code: makeinfo is missing - cannot build manuals make: *** [info] Error 1 **** Installation failed. Aborting package creation. Cleaning up...OK Bye. What is Error 1
