Excerpt from Josh Silard's message of 2012-03-18T23:58-0400: > Hi list, > > I recently performed an update of udev and my kernel and after this > I am unable to boot the normal kernel or the fallback. When I try I > get this error: > > ERROR: Unable to find root device > '/dev/disk/by-uid/03619a2f-908f-4724-ba4b-1fb3985e382b' > You are being dropped to a recovery shell > Type 'exit' to try and continue booting > sh: can't access tty; job control turned off > > Typing exit results in me dropping to another shell and if done > repeatedly a kernel panic. I attempted to boot via the grub console > using the sda device block but I came up with the same error. When > I look in /dev through the recovery console that comes up the sda* > blocks aren't present. > > I need to know if there is a way to do this without entirely > reformatting my system, I also don't have easy access to another > computer but I have an android phone. Any assistance is greatly > appreciated. You can try SystemRescueCd to boot the computer, then type the following: mkdir /mnt/lx mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/lx mount -o bind /proc /mnt/lx/proc mount -o bind /dev /mnt/lx/dev mount -o bind /sys /mnt/lx/sys chroot /mnt/lx/ /bin/zsh grub-install /dev/sda [--recheck] exit umount /mnt/lx/dev umount /mnt/lx/proc umount /mnt/lx/sys umount /mnt/lx/boot umount /mnt/lx
