re: FC14, sleeping forever

[Hugh Caley <hcaley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Subject:

FC14, sleeping forever

From:

Tod Thomas <fr33zone@xxxxxxxxx>

Date:

06:07 AM

To:

Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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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