<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<blockquote type="cite">
<table class="header-part1" width="100%" border="0"
cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<div class="headerdisplayname" style="display:inline;">Subject:
</div>
FC14, sleeping forever</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div class="headerdisplayname" style="display:inline;">From:
</div>
Tod Thomas <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:fr33zone@gmail.com"><fr33zone@gmail.com></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div class="headerdisplayname" style="display:inline;">Date:
</div>
06:07 AM</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table class="header-part2" width="100%" border="0"
cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<div class="headerdisplayname" style="display:inline;">To:
</div>
Community support for Fedora users
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org"><users@lists.fedoraproject.org></a></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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 :(<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks - Tod</blockquote>
<br>
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:<br>
<br>
1. your grub installation is messed up (so it can't find your root
disk)<br>
2. your root disk is messed up<br>
<br>
Hugh<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<font size="-1"><b><i>Hugh Caley</i>
<br>
Linux System Administrator
<br>
Aldon Business Area <br>
Rocket Software</b>
<br>
6001 Shellmound St. Ste. 600 · Emeryville, CA 94608 · USA
<br>
Tel:+1.510.285.8542
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Email:hcaley@aldon.com">Email:hcaley@aldon.com</a>
<br>
Web:aldon.com</font>
</div>
</body>
</html>