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legendlcox · Joined:Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:40 pm Posts:8

I am having a problem with MintPPC 11. I downloaded the MintPPC mini.iso from the installation page. There were not any errors in the installation. But when I rebooted it, it comes up wit the following error.

Code:

modprobe: module unix not found in modules.dep
done.
Begin: Running scripts/init-premount ... done.
Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... done.
Begin: Waiting for root file system ... done.
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
- boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
     - Check rootdelay= (did the system not wait long enough?)
     - Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
-Missing modules (cat /proc/modules: ls /dev)
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/7fd81340-7906-448c-a33f-ca57eab145a7 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
modprobe: can't load module i8042 (kernel/drivers/input/serio/i8042.ko): No such device. 
modprobe: can't load module i8042 (kernel/drivers/input/serio/i8042.ko): No such device. 
[       40.099270] uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver


BusyBox v1019.3 (Debian 1:1.19.3-5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. 

/bin/sh: can't access tty: job control turned off
(initramfs)

Could someone please give me a way to fix this. Possibly without having to completely reinstall it or download it again.

lubod · **Posted:** Mon Apr 09, 2012 2:47 pm

This sort of thing has been known to happen once or twice.

Here is a fairly good explanation of what might have gone wrong:

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ubuntu-initrd-bug.html

This write-up, though it focuses on Ubuntu and PC hardware, is in large part applicable to PowerPC Linux as well, because while PowerPC uses BootX or Yaboot (definitely yaboot in your case) instead of grub or grub2, most of the rest of the possible problems, and their solutions, are similar. In other words, from the moment the boot-loader takes over, Linux behaves similarly, regardless of the underlying hardware.

I'd focus first on the boot arguments, about here:

Quote:

Boot arguments, which you can see by running cat /proc/cmdline in the BusyBox shell

Basically, anytime it refers to grub, just substitute yaboot. See also:

http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/yaboot/

legendlcox · Joined:Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:40 pm Posts:8

Okay then, thank you I will work on that, possibly try version 9 as well.