HELP: Dropping to a shell! after copy Wubi installation onto another PC

[Yi Tan]

Sorted out!

I found out that you can use LABEL instead of UUID in the configuration
file.

So, in windows, I set a Label to that hard disk, and then altered the
configuration file accordingly.


Regards,

ty


On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Jason Crain <jason at bluetree.ath.cx> wrote:

> On Mon, February 23, 2009 11:12 am, Yi Tan wrote:
> > I copy that Wubi installation onto my home PC(PC2). I've also
> > copied wubildr, wubildr.mbr and modified windows's boot.ini
> >
> > Then I turn on PC2. I can select boot ubuntu. And then see the ubuntu
> logo
> > with loading bar for a moment.
> >
> > And it ends up in following failure:
> >
> > Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
> > .......
> > ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/7Axxxxxxxxxx does not exist. Dropping to a
> shell!
> >
> > ---------------------------
> >
> > I don't know much about linux. It seems like the copied-version ubuntu
> > can't
> > get the hard disk to work.
> >
> > Is there any easy way to make it works? Because I have got all software,
> > environment setup in that wubi installation. Really don't want a fresh
> > installation with time consuming software setup.
>
> You will need to edit the file /etc/fstab and change the 'UUID=XXX' lines
> to show the correct uuids.  You can find the UUIDs of your system by using
> 'sudo blkid'.
>
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