On Tue 24 Jan 2012 at 13:03:19 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > I had yesterday a very big boot problem: > after choosing any linux entry in the grub boot menu, > I got failure messages, and was dropped to a busybox shell
Did these entries boot prior to yesterday? > I sent a post 1 hour ago with an attachment showing these messages > but it didn't reach the list (I thought that small attached files > were allowed, but it seems I was wrong) My understanding is that mails with attachments are not blocked. You could try again in your next mail by attaching your grub.cfg. > So, I extracted the more important part. > =============================================================== > [ 3.903186] scsi_mod: '20a' invalid for parameter 'inq_timeout' > done > Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems: > - Boot args ... > - check rootdelay= > - check root= > - Missing modules... > ALERT /dev/disk/by-uuid/8f0abe00....... does not exist. > Dropping to a shell At the GRUB menu get a shell with 'c'. Type 'ls -l'. Does GRUB see the disk with UUID 8f0abe00....... ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120124133602.GN17235@desktop

