Dual-Booting Kali Linux with Windows 10 Gave up waiting for root device

[ultraMLG1108]

When dual-booting Kali Linux with Windows 10, I get this error when booting into Kali from GRUB:

Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:

- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
- Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
- Check root= did the system wait for the right device?)
- Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)

But I think the main line is this:

ALERT! /dev/sdb5 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

It should really be trying to boot from /dev/sda5 or /dev/sda6 (not sure which one, sda5 is ext4, sda6 is swap. How do I change which one it boots from? (and yes, they all exist in /dev.) Thanks guys!

 

[Elixer]

Edit GRUB to point to the correct location.

 

[ultraMLG1108]

Edit GRUB to point to the correct location.

Can you tell me how to do that? And which one do I point it to, the ext4 or the swap one? Thanks! I'm new to this stuff.

EDIT: Nevermind, got it to work! I pointed to sda5, which was the ext4 partition. Thanks for all of your help!

 

[jus7ch1ll1n]

Can you tell me how to do that? And which one do I point it to, the ext4 or the swap one? Thanks! I'm new to this stuff.

EDIT: Nevermind, got it to work! I pointed to sda5, which was the ext4 partition. Thanks for all of your help!

Hey, I have the exactly same problem.. could you please tell me how you pointed it there? I still dont know how to do that and since you already figured it out I just want to ask.. 🙂 thanks in advance

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Hey, I have the exactly same problem.. could you please tell me how you pointed it there? I still dont know how to do that and since you already figured it out I just want to ask.. 🙂 thanks in advance

https://www.howtogeek.com/196655/how-to-configure-the-grub2-boot-loaders-settings/

Find which config file is pointing you at sdb5, edit it to point at sda5, and then do a grub-update.