[GRLUG] Warning: root device /dev/root does not exist - From chroot .deb pkg install

Josh leapole at gmail.com
Sun Apr 14 13:54:20 EDT 2013


this error is from trying to install a kernel .deb package, to a
chrooted environment.


On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:

> I got a very similar error recently, while attaching a usb hard drive
> to an OpenWRT wireless router.  Turned out i needed to install the
> kernel module for the ext4 filesystem (kmod-fs-ext4 on OpenWRT).  It
> was odd indeed to bee able to stat /dev/sdb2 but still get "device
> doesn't exist" when attempting to mount it.
>
> Maybe you're running into something similar?
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