[arch-general] Unbootable systems

Ionut Biru ibiru at archlinux.org
Sun Dec 4 16:17:04 EST 2011


On 12/04/2011 11:13 PM, Guillermo Leira wrote:
> I've just updated two computers that boot from external USB drives, and
> now I get a
> 
> "Error: Unable to determine major/minor number of root device 'waiting 8
> seconds for device /dev/disk/by-uuid/296...etc"
> 
> I have tried to modify grub using by-id, just /dev/sdb1, but no way...
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Guillermo Leira
> 
> 

get mkinitcpio from testing or append to your bootloader "quiet" option
to kernel line.

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Ionuț

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