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UBUNTU 8.04 - /init: /init: 1: cannot open /dev/root: No such device or address [message #18354]

Wed, 24 September 2008 14:45

forigato
Messages: 1
Registered: September 2008

Junior Member

Hello All,

I was presented with a busybox shell. Error messages on boot include:

"Begin: Mounting root file system... ...
Begin: Running /scipts/local-top ...
Done.
/init: /init: 1: cannot open /dev/root: No such device or address
Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ...
Done." ...
"Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init"

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Re: UBUNTU 8.04 - /init: /init: 1: cannot open /dev/root: No such device or address [message #18355 is a reply to message #18354]

Wed, 24 September 2008 15:57

amrein
Messages: 278
Registered: August 2008
Location: France

Experienced Member

I'm running Linux but not Ubuntu (Mandriva).

You didn't switch your hard drive cable or changed your bios boot configuration nor updated your motherboard bios I guess so:

- You had a kernel or bootloader update failure (before last rebooting)
- Or a disk failure
- Or you added bad boot parameters in your lilo or grub configuration file

Better to ask in a specialised Ubuntu forum. Most people run Windows here.

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Re: UBUNTU 8.04 - /init: /init: 1: cannot open /dev/root: No such device or address [message #18389 is a reply to message #18354]

Thu, 25 September 2008 19:22

chickenk
Messages: 171
Registered: May 2007
Location: Grenoble, France

Experienced Member

forigato wrote on Wed, 24 September 2008 14:45

/init: /init: 1: cannot open /dev/root: No such device or address

Suppose your filesystem in installed on the partition /dev/hda1, try to append

root=/dev/hda1

to your linux kernel command-line in your bootloader.

/dev/hda1 is an example !!!!

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