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I have a problem... I'm trying to boot into my system. I get to choose my kernel and the normal boot messages start flowing down on the screen, but then this happens:

Code:

Begin: Mounting root file system... ...

Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ...

Done.

Begin: Waiting for root file system... ...

Done.

ALERT!  /dev/sda2 does not exist.  Dropping to a shell!

        Check your root= boot argument (cat /proc/cmdline)

Check for missing modules (cat /proc/modules), or device files (ls /dev)





BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-5) Built-in shell (ash)

Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.



/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

(initramfs)

And there I have a command line interface.

What's going on? And please don't tell me my hard drive crashed. :(

/dev/sda1 is my /boot partition by the way, which seems to be fine...

Check to see what is missing. Use this command to list the partitions on all your drives:

fdisk -l

Use this command to show your devices:

ls -l /dev | less

List /etc/fstab to see what partitions you are trying to mount at boot:

less /etc/fstab

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Steve Stites

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Originally Posted by jailbait (Post 3155689)

Thanks for the reply.

However, I decided to just boot into Windows and use that for a while since I couldn't be bothered with trying to fix this. Busy with school and work and all...

So, I just unplugged the hard drive and plugged my Windows in and used that for a while. Then I decided I was going to see what I could do about this problem, plugged the Linux drive backed in and everything seemed to be working and has been working great since then.

So, yay. :)

Sounds like you had a loose physical connection.