Comment 63 for bug 568050

my scenario is slightly different - i upgraded a 9.10 machine to 10.4 - and now it fails to boot altogether
attempts to get to the HD using the 10.4 live dvd failed

it looks like grub loads 10.4 correctly - the 10.4 gets to the point of requesting console login - any attempt to login fails, the gdm also fails.

since on a machine without fakeraid the same upgrade process went smoothly my guess is that the problem is related to this bug