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On 07/14/2011 04:15 PM, Hugh Caley wrote:
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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>
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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>
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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>
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1. your grub installation is messed up (so it can't find your root
disk)<br>
2. your root disk is messed up<br>
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Hugh<br>
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<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>
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Thanks Hugh, that did the trick. I booted up in rescue mode and
fsck'ed the root partition and rebooted just fine.<br>
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