Boot failure: hard disk does not exist (Hardy beta)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.20
I just upgraded my Thinkpad X40 to the Hardy beta (using update-manager -d or similar) and now it won't boot by default.
It turns out that only the latest installed kernel (2.6.24-12-386) fails. Previous available kernels back to 2.6.17-10 will; before that, there's a kernel panic which is probably unrelated.
The symptoms when booting the normal kernel are that the boot sequence gets to:
Loading, please wait...
and stops. After about three minutes, it drops to a busybox shell, saying:
Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline
or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
ALERT: /dev/disk/
...
(initramfs) _
/proc/cmdline is:
root=UUID=ff3536... ro quiet splash
Doing ls from the (initramfs) prompt, there is no /dev/disk, /dev/hd*, or /dev/sd*.
The symptoms when booting the recovery kernel are:
Mounting root file system ...
Done.
...
Waiting for root file system ...
<hang>
The following comment in an older bug may be the same thing, although I don't get the mount errors he gets:
https:/
Please let me know what additional information I can provide to help debug this problem.
Gerv
<cough> I know you guys are busy and it's just been a weekend, but I would have thought that "your soon-to-be-released operating system makes my machine unbootable" bugs might attract a certain amount of interest :-) Or at least being allocated an Importance...
Gerv