Xbian hangs during boot saying "Switching root"

[Rilhas]

(26th Aug, 2013 10:42 PM)mk01 Wrote:  1) put "debug" into cmdline and let's see, how far you get.

2) put "init=/bin/bash" into cmdline to start a shell immediately after switch root. if you get shell, then it's stuck somewhere on processing /sbin/init and you should be able to see something with 1)

if you don't get shell with 2), something is messing your SD card.

how does your /etc/fstab look like? and please check for "nohdparm" option in cmdline, if it is not there, put it there.

Thanks for your quick reply. Unfortunately my Linux skills are very limited. What is the "command line"? I did a quick Google but it seems to be a complex subject... is it something in "config.txt"?

I can't remember all of fstab (and I can't see it now that it is not booting), but the line I added (to the 4 or 5 lines of the fstab file that already existed) was:

UUID=5916829a-80bd-4add-8884-cb06ced01442 /RILHAS-SRV ext3 defaults,exec,errors=remount-ro 0 0

I think I saw this disk already mounted on /media, but mounting it again at /RILHAS-SRV didn't seem to cause any issues, so I've been using it like this for a long time now. I remember having something to do with me not being able to execute applications from the USB disk, so I added this new mount to allow me to do that.

BTW: Is there any way for me to access the SD card contents from Windows? My laptop's card reader is not recognized as a device that I can simply pass along to my VirtualBox Ubuntu, and file sharing will not work because Windows doesn't recognize the file system.

Thanks again!