Xbian hangs during boot saying "Switching root"

[Rilhas]

(26th Aug, 2013 11:16 PM)mk01 Wrote:  with cmdline I meant /boot/cmdline.txt. you was changing parameters there already.

when you do the 2) and you get prompt, run "nano /etc/fstab" and edit the line with your RILHAS-SRV record - add "nobootwait" parameter to it. so it would look like:

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

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if you can't pass the sd to your virtualbox linux, you will not able to access the filesystem.

but with the init=/bin/bash in cmdline.txt you should get the prompt (as with ssh) and be able to perform commands. at least those which we will tell you - if you are not skilled with linux.

My first task then is to try to access the SD card's file system to make the required changes to the command line (maybe with some external USB card reader that I can pass to Ubuntu as a device). I'll come back after that and after completing your instructions.

Thanks for all your help!