Ubuntu
initramfs-tools package

  1. Bug #21481
  2. Comment #38

Comment 38 for bug 21481

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Jason Crain (jason-bluetree) wrote :

Your fstab and menu.lst look good to me same to me. And if they didn't match, I would expect the error messages to be different.

So if you boot into -19 recovery console, you see entries in /dev ? Do you at least have /dev/hda or /dev/sda entries for your drive? If so, I don't know why it is not creating the entries in /dev/disk/by-uuid. It should create entries based on the following rules:

# by-label/by-uuid (filesystem properties)
IMPORT{program}="vol_id --export $tempnode"
ENV{ID_FS_USAGE}=="filesystem|other|crypto", ENV{ID_FS_UUID_ENC}=="?*", SYMLINK+="disk/by-uuid/$env{ID_FS_UUID_ENC}"
ENV{ID_FS_USAGE}=="filesystem|other", ENV{ID_FS_LABEL_ENC}=="?*", SYMLINK+="disk/by-label/$env{ID_FS_LABEL_ENC}"

and it gets the information it needs from /lib/udev/vol_id. I can only guess that either it cannot find the vol_id program or vol_id is returning bad information. What does it show when you run "/lib/udev/vol_id /dev/hd??" replacing ?? with letter/number for your root drive?