Cannot find Root filesystem. Bug in intramfs/init detected. Dropping to a shell. Good luck!

[M A Young]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Joshua C. wrote:

> 2009/2/24 Joshua C. <joshuacov at googlemail.com>:
>> As the subject says I get the following error with F11 Alpha: "Cannot
>> find Root filesystem. Bug in intramfs/init detected. Dropping to a
>> shell. Good luck!"
> A bug report has already been filed:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458597 on July, 10 but
> there is still no fix for this.

The problem is that that error message doesn't say much more than "an 
error occurred". Clearly something went wrong during the boot but that 
doesn't say what it is. Removing boot line options such as quiet and rhgb 
might give you a better idea of the cause of the problem.

 	Michael Young