On 07/14/2011 04:15 PM, Hugh Caley wrote:
Subject:
FC14, sleeping forever
From:
Tod Thomas <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]>
Date:
06:07 AM
To:
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I've got a virtual FC14 image running under virtual box on a win7
laptop. Something hung it up yesterday and I had to hard boot the
image. Now when I try and restart it progresses to a point of almost
completing and stops with the message "No root device found. Boot
has failed, sleeping forever.
I have a feeling I've hosed my boot partition or I've somehow
confused grub. Has anybody run into this that might have a quick
solution? I've only got the virtualbox image to work with, no
snapshots or backups :(
Thanks - Tod
You'll need to boot the VM off of a rescue disk; the Fedora 14 install
disk will do it. Then you can try fscking your boot disk, and if that
doesn't fix it you can run grub-install per the rescue instructions
(available online). If THAT doesn't work, you'll probably need to
reinstall. I personally don't know of any easier way to do it; it's
almost certainly one of 2 things:
1. your grub installation is messed up (so it can't find your root disk)
2. your root disk is messed up
Hugh
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Thanks Hugh, that did the trick. I booted up in rescue mode and fsck'ed
the root partition and rebooted just fine.
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