No root device found - HELP
Hi,
I've been using SuSE 9.1 for a few months. Yesterday tried to make backup (through yast) and prepare boot floopies (yast).
After these operations (backup failed due to the lack of space) I can not boot linux. Before I rebooted I looked like some drives had been unmounted.
When I tried to boot it tries and then gives the message:
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Waiting for device /dev/hdb3 to appear;
... not found device nodes;
by-ip by-path console fb0 fd0 hda hdb loop0 loop1 ..(etc)
No root device found; exit to bin/sh
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By the way fdisk before these problems reported:
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Disk /dev/hda: 10.2 GB, 10242892800 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1245 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 772 6201058+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 773 1245 3799372+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 773 1245 3799341 b W95 FAT32
Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 4536 36435388+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdb2 4537 4616 642600 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdb3 * 4617 9728 41062140 83 Linux
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I use grub with following config:
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title Linux
kernel (hd1,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb3 splash=silent desktop resume=/de
initrd (hd1,2)/boot/initrd
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But I also use smb with grub and I doesn't show now that hdb3 is bootable.
The last boot floopy is corrupted, unfortunatelly
I don't possess rescue floppy.
Please give me some hints hot to rescue this.
