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Boot Problem ALERT! /dev/disk/bu-uuid/**** does not exist. Dropping to a shel!

Asked by Joseph Coffey

Installed latest UBUNTU 10 from Live CD onto an SCSI drive. Drive was partitioned to allow the system to boot from Linux or Windows XP.

Followed the installation to the letter but the system cannot boot Linux from the hard drive after installation.

Message:
***************************************
Gave up waiting for root device.
- Boot args...
   - Check root delay = ...
   - check root = ...
-Missing Modules...
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/80135832-4a6c-46e2-999e-c42555ad552f does not exist. Dropping to shell!

BusyBox...
(initramfs) -
**************************************

System Info
Dell Precision 610, Pentium II XEON 550 MHz (old system) 512 MB RAM, IDE CD-ROM
Two SCSI Drives Seagate ST318453LS Bus#0, ID 0, LUN 0
                           Quantum Atlas 10K PWLS Bus#0, ID 2. LUN 0
Extra SCSI CD-Writer
                           HP CD-Writer PLus 9200

Any suggestions? I do not want to wipe out the Windows partition until I know that the system is fully functional.

Joseph

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Boot to liveCD and chroot to the installed system.

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Uncomment the following line:
GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

Press CTRL+X
Press Y
Press ENTER

Run:

sudo update-grub

Then reboot, should be ok.

Source:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KarmicUpgrades

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Joseph Coffey (jcoffey) said : 		#2

I am relatively new to Linux. How do you use the chroot command?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

You could have websearched a little to find guides. Here's one I found:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1499540

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Joseph Coffey (jcoffey) said : 		#4

Followed the procedure and problem still exists.

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#5

Boot on live CD.
1) Run
       sudo blkid
and post result
2) Search in internal hard disk boot/grub/grub.cfg and post file.
You can also check if results of blkid matches values in this file.

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