From: Alexei_Roudnev (Alexei_Roudnev_at_exigengroup.com)
Date: Thu May 04 2006 - 19:45:30 CEST
Message-ID: <051201c66fa2$89b08570$6401a8c0@alexh> From: "Alexei_Roudnev" <Alexei_Roudnev@exigengroup.com> Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 10:45:30 -0700 Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES-9 Install on Dell 2850, no root device
Strange; I installed it all many many times and never had any problems. With
SLES9-SP1, SLES9-SP3, SLES9 , in 32 and 64 bit modes.
Looks as you used wrong installation sequence. Did you try to install SLES9
firtst and the upgrade to SP1 and then to SP3?
PS. Novell support... forget about it, it is useless.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Joffe" <rjoffe@yahoo.com>
To: <suse-sles-e@suse.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 7:48 AM
Subject: [suse-sles-e] SLES-9 Install on Dell 2850, no root device
> I have submitted this same issue to Novell support (After figuring out
their
> very poorly designed service request form).
>
> Perhaps someone on the list has a suggestion as well ?
>
>
> SLES-9 SP3 32 bit
> Server:
> Dell 2850
> Perc 4/Di controller - Single Raid 1 Partition
> Dual Xeon 3.4
> 4GB Ram
>
> Install, standard install.
> Partitions:
> /dev/sda1 - 100Meg ext2 /boot
> /dev/sda2 - 2GB SWAP
> /dev/sda3 - 5 GB /
> Install went just fine, after package load, system reboots. On reboot,
console
> displays:
> Loading kernal/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko
> waiting for device /dev/sda3 ro appear: ....not found -- device nodes:
> long list of device nodes (tty's,pty's, etc)
> No root device found: exiting to /bin/sh
>
> I can boot via rescue disk, and easily mount /dev/sda3 to /mnt and
/dev/sda1
> to /mnt/boot.
>
> I have chrooted in the rescue mode to /mnt and ran yast to apply all
latest
> patches (including kernel). This did not help the configuration.
>
> I have gone into the bios and changed all disk and boot settings a number
of
> different formats, this did not help either.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron
>
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