Ubuntu server cannot find the root device

[Asif Iqbal]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Serge Hallyn
<serge.hallyn at canonical.com> wrote:
> Quoting Asif Iqbal (vadud3 at gmail.com):
>> I am back to same problem
>>
>> this is how my fstab looks like
>>
>> proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
>> /dev/sda2 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
>
> If you like, you might use blkid to find the UUID of /dev/sda2, and use
> that.

yeah, but the problem is it will still try to boot from md1

>
>> UUID=ad5e933e-d6bf-0df0-dac9-edcf54bcf06d none            swap    sw
>>            0       0
>> UUID="9b3de848-b6e7-4c6b-9659-89875da35403"   /opt/splunk     ext4    defaults        0       0
>>
>> but /proc/cmdline still using the UUID of /dev/md1
>> BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-27-generic
>> root=UUID=08febc85-9ce2-40ac-a354-e006f709a586 ro console=ttyS0,9600n8
>>
>> any idea why?
>
> You've not run update-grub?
>

how do I do that from busybox at (initramfs) ?




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