FC14, sleeping forever

[Tod Thomas]

On 07/14/2011 04:15 PM, Hugh Caley wrote:
>> Subject:
>> FC14, sleeping forever
>> From:
>> Tod Thomas <fr33zone at gmail.com> <mailto:fr33zone at gmail.com>
>> Date:
>> 06:07 AM
>>
>> To:
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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.
>>
>> 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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Thanks Hugh, that did the trick.  I booted up in rescue mode and fsck'ed 
the root partition and rebooted just fine.
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