Comment 21 for bug 152820

Here's a quick rundown of my Gutsy kernel issue.

Feisty was working fine with my computer. An upgrade to Gutsy worked -- with the exception of needing to either use the Feisty kernel, or compile my own with the SiS 5513 module compiled (it was removed by the Ubuntu folks).

Then I finally read through this bug. There is critical information hidden away here that really needs to be documented better. I tried to switch everything in /etc/fstab from '/dev/hd*' to /dev/sd*'. That got me further, but failed to completely work. I was finally able to get to a console prompt, though. I determined that it was now finding my root directory, but directories that were on other partitions were no longer found.

End result: /etc/fstab needs to have the '/' (root) directory set as /dev/sd*, but all other partitions need to be set as /dev/hd*. Kinda weird, but it works. I am finally using the stock Gutsy Ubuntu kernels -- and they work!

(no -- my system did not have any of the evms packages installed)

Could someone from the kernel team please review what all needed to change in setup for those of us that use IDE drives? I'm guessing that a number of issues could be resolved just by properly documenting the necessary changes when upgrading from Feisty to Gutsy. /etc/fstab clearly needs to change for those that use IDE drives. What else needs to change? These change notes need to be added to the upgrade notes (http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading).

As requested, I am including my kern.log. The latest boot messages would be from the 2.6.22-14 kernel.