Comment 4 for bug 203297

BTW, the line that hangs above is

  "Begin: waiting for root file system"

I will try various things:

* wait long enough to see if an initram shell pops up
* try using /dev/hda or /dev/sda in the boot line (and maybe in /ect/fstab)
* dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.24-generic
* see if info found in issue #32123 helps me (if so let me know what kind of information you want me to save)