Comment 81 for bug 33269

After upgrading from Ubuntu 9.04->9.10 today, I got this problem on my laptop (stock Acer Aspire 5500Z). Upgrading then rebooting, I was presented with a white splash screen, frozen. After some time, it timed out and dropped me into busybox.

There is some sort of odd bug where the kernel is unable to recognize UUID of my root partition. Strangely, it **does** recognize my swap partition.

The fix:
-When booting grub, I change "root=UUID=9626db86-cfb8-4a00-9e7f-xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" to "root=/dev/sda1"
-I changed my fstab in the same way.