GRUB : could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Mon Mar 5 18:36:51 UTC 2007
On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 18:38 +0100, Bruno Cosatcurta wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm using Fedora Core-6 and installed Core-7 on a third hard disk
> but receive the following error when booting on it :
> (note: first+second disks are RAID1+LVM, third disk is also under LVM)
>
> ..
> found volume group VolGroup02 ..etc..
> mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
> ..
>
> Please see Fedora Core-7' label hereafter.
> I'm using LVM and have the following grub.conf:
>
> #boot=/dev/mapper/isw_cfaabdceig_RAIDv0
> default=0
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>
> title Fedora Core (2.6.19-1.2911.fc6)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> rhgb quiet
> initrd /initrd-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6.img
>
> title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> rhgb quiet
> initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
>
> # ---> error hereafter
> title Fedora Core-7
> root (hd2,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2949.fc7 ro
> root=(hd2,0)/dev/VolGroup02/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
> initrd /initrd-2.6.20-1.2949.fc7.img
>
>
> Thanks for any clue.
Delete the "(hd2,0)" bit from the "root=" line for the FC7 stanza.
Once you've told grub where the root of the system is (the
"root (hd2,0)" line), all other stuff is relative to that root.
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