Hang after Dapper upgrade: "Waiting for root file system..."

[Jim Gettys]

I upgraded to Dapper from Breezy; it is a Compaq desktop machine with a Athlon CPU which has conventional IDE disks.

Very early in the boot sequence the machine says:
"Waiting for root file system..." and sits for a number of minutes.

It then drops me into a busybox shell, which tells me:
ALERT! /dev/hda2 does not exist. dropping to a shell!

This sounds much like bug, 37639 but is, it appears, significantly different hardware.

[Paul Dufresne (paulduf)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at [WWW] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in linux-source-2.6.15.

It has been a long time, are you still there?
Bug #37639 is still open, BTW.

[Paul Dufresne (paulduf)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!