Am 15. Nov, 2006 schwätzte eric© so:
> Installed Xubuntu 6.06 on my Thinkpad the other day, everything seemed to be
> OK until I attempted to install the xmms-alarm package. Wouldn't even
> download, altho I could still browse the net. In typical longterm Windows
> user fashion, I just figured it needed a reboot. Did so, and it wouldn't
> boot afterwards, hanging on the "mounting root file system", and went to
> "waiting for root file system" for a few minutes, and eventually telling me
> that /dev/hde1 could not be found. Attemped a reinstall of the OS, and it
> refused to install to the drive, giving some error that I can't recall now.
> Assumed bad drive (just bought it about 6 hours prior). Fry's exchanged it
> out no problem, and this time around I chose Ubuntu 6.06. Same thing,
> everything seemed to be OK until I rebooted, and it fails attempting to
> mount the root file system, still trying to load on /dev/hde1. It drops me
> into a shell eventually, where I checked the /dev folder, and found that
> niether hde nor hde1 exists. I tried creating the folder, still hung (altho
> i really didn't expect that to work).
/dev/hde should be an extra controller.
Do you have on board SATA? Do you have a PCI SATA controller?
If you boot a Live CD what device is the disk on? What's in the installed
/etc/fstab?
I believe the shell you're getting is mostly meant for debugging the
kernel. It's been a while since I've looked at it.
ciao,
der.hans
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