Mandriva
linux package

  1. Bug #220706
  2. Comment #103

Comment 103 for bug 220706

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Juan Iguana (cisneros-jc) wrote :

I managed to update my problematic machine to Karmic. A curious thing that I forgot to mention before, this PC does boot if I try it *less than TEN MINUTES after turning off Windows XP*. Each time I want to use Ubuntu on this machine I have to boot Windows first, then restart the machine and boot Ubuntu in a few minutes, it's the only way to make it work. I just updated to Karmic and installed updates, including Kernel 2.6.31.16. Then, 40 minutes later, I try to boot and it failed again. It did not display the traditional "SRST failed...." but instead this (which looks more or less the same to me):

Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:5167c2530e6
    -Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
         -Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
         -Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
Alert! dev/disk/by-uuid/2fa287a6-1db7-4d36-670b-55167c2530e6 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

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So the problem is still there...