Ubuntu
initramfs-tools package

  1. Bug #38287
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Comment 1 for bug 38287

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Carthik Sharma (carthik) wrote : Re: Booting with kernel 2.6.12-19-686 throws error regarding not finding /dev/mapper/Ubuntu-root not existing and stops booting

Correction: I didst-upgraded from Breezy to Dapper.

Upon doing this again, just to get the exact error message, I get:

Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
     Unable to find volume group "Ubuntu"
ALERT! /dev/mapper/Ubuntu-root does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

Busybox v1.01 (Debian 1:1.01-4ubuntu3) Built-in shell (ash)... etc

I have /boot on a seperate partition. I use ext3 for all the partitions. The /home and / are on LVM partitions.

The /boot/ directory has more than 201MB of free space on it.

The laptop is an Acer Travelmate 290 LMi, which used to work wonderfully under Breezy.