Saturday, October 28, 2017

Instance does not have a volume attached at root (/dev/sda1)

Error :Instance does not have a volume attached at root (/dev/sda1) 

The error occurs when either a boot volume is missing or mapped to wrong device name. In this case EC2 instance is expecting the boot device name /dev/sda1 to be connected to the EC2 instance and unable to find it

The step is valid for EC2 instances is backed by EBS volumes i.e EBS is used for boot volumes rather than Instance Store



Note: To Understand more about Instance backed store and EBS backed store
refer this article Amazon EC2 Root Device Volume




To attach a root volume follow these steps.

  • Create   a new EBS Volume. Click on Volumes when in EC2 Instance page


  • Once EBS volume is created , right click and select Attach Volume
  • Select the EC2 instance in second textbox and enter the device name as "/dev/sda1"

  • Click Attach and restart the EC2 instance 




 Do leave comment if the solution works and even if it doesn't work . Thanks!










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