Root device /dev/sda1 doesn't exist

Question

I got something like this when I booted today (at the stage of initializing kernel):
Root device '/dev/sda1' doesn't exist, attempting to create it
ERROR: Failed to parse block device ids
ERROR: Unable to detect or create root device'
I did try the normal kernel (I currently use kernel26-ice), but haven't tried those xen0 and selinux kernels though. Also I tried changing /dev/sda1 to hda1 in menu.lst and fstab, but no luck .
E: Will try this one once I have time: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … .27t_exist
Other help is still of course greatly appreciated .
Last edited by algorythm (2009-10-11 11:21:56)

Answer 1

Yeah, thanks but I even used rootdelay=90 by then.
The problem turned out to be that I didn't have the "sata" or "filesystems" hook on my (/etc/)mkinitcpio.conf, so it wouldn't have been possible to recognize any other partitions or any filesystems either (at least with my machine).
So how I booted correctly (with the first time btw) was that I booted the -fallback kernel that DOES have (all) the hook(s) I needed in the kernel26(-ice)-fallback.img.
So I had these hooks before this:
base udev fbsplash autodetect pata scsi sata uresume filesystems
During this:
base udev uresume
And now after this:
base udev sata uresume filesystems
Cheers!
Last edited by algorythm (2009-10-14 15:51:15)