Hi all. This problem has had me pulling my hair out for the last few days. I just moved around my partitions so I could get rid of Windows. My Linux used to be on /dev/sda5 and Windows on /dev/sda1, but I created a new partition where Windows had been and copied all my files there with Knoppix and cp -rfv --preserve (except /proc because that would never copy since some of the files aren't strictly "real" I guess). Anyway, I then booted into my copy on /dev/sda1 and it worked fine. I then deleted /dev/sda5 to give me more space and when I boot again into /dev/sda1 it gives me an error.
Waiting for /sys/block/sda/sda5/dev No such file or directory Well, of course it can't find it: sda5 has been deleted and doesn't exist. It seems that whatever reference the old partition had was copied over and thus it's still looking for sda5 even though it doesn't exist. I tried moving /sys/block/sda/sda5 to a temporary directory hoping that would stop it from looking for it, but no luck. O also removed all references to sda5 in /etc/fstab and that didn't help either. Btw, I found this link which from someone who had my same problem: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/12/msg01406.html But I couldn't figure out how it applied to me, and I can't really uninstall yaird unless I can't boot into my system! :P Any ideas on what's keeping it from booting still? Thanks all :).
