Installing Mint - problems.

InsomniaCalls

InsomniaCalls

InsomniaCalls

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Hi there,

Installed Mint on a machine i'm planning on using as a file server last night.
It boots fine as a live CD but after install I get errors on boot:

Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
- Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
- Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
- Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT! /dev/sda5 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

BusyBox v1.10.2 (Ubuntu 1:1.10.2-1ubuntu6) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

(initramfs) _

I followed the instructions here and seemingly I messed something up!

The machine has 3 SATA drives (2 using on-board SATA and one which isn't visible yet as I haven't been able to boot into Mint and install the drivers for the PCI SATA card).

I partitioned the first drive as described in the link above and didn't touch the remaining free space so I (think) i had /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, /dev/sda3, then some unformatted space on /dev/sda. /dev/sdb was untouched - no partitions just unformatted space.

If I'm right this makes me wonder why Mint is looking for /dev/sda5.

Any hints would be appreciated!

Thanks

Si
:)
 
Having no luck with this at all.
I just tried reinstalling Mint using the Guided partitioning and just left everything to defaults - now when I try and boot I get an error that there is no active partition.
 
I had the same error with that ASH shell coming up, but decided to just reinstall mint and all was fine! I searched for a bit round the net, but came to no decent conclusions. Is it working ok now?
 
Seems to be but I'm not sure I'll stick with it for long.
I was initially planning on running OpenSolaris for ZFS goodness so I'll probably have a go at that this weekend.
 
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