dapper doesn't boot thinkpad T43

[Matthew East]

Hi,

Since an update yesterday, dapper won't boot my Thinkpad T43. If I don't touch
anything, it kicks out early on the grounds that /dev/sda7 (my root partition)
isn't there. If I edit the grub line and substitute "/dev/hda7" (which was the
device for the harddrive under hoary, but not warty or breezy), then it boots a
certain way, but then kicks out on the grounds that /etc/fstab has the wrong
name. I haven't tried editing that file yet, let me know if you want me to do
that. But I'm thinking that the drive should be sda anyhow.

Hope this helps, and that it's obvious what you need to fix. Lspci is below.

Oh, udev version is 076 ubuntu5.

matt@kalliope:~$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. Mobile Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. Mobile Graphics Controller
(rev 03)
0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. Mobile Graphics Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI
Express Port 1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI
Express Port 3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB
UHCI #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB
UHCI #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB
UHCI #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB
UHCI #4 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3)
0000:00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW
(ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem
Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus
Controller (rev 03)
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 167d (rev 11)
0000:04:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller
0000:04:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 4224 (rev 05)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/ThinkpadT43-1871: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/ThinkpadT43-1871

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

It sounds like you're getting alternately different drivers claiming your
controller card...

Could you try updating today, in particular make sure you have the
linux-image-2.6.15-7-* and udev-077-0ubuntu2 packages installed, and see whether
the problem persists.

If it does, or you need help getting your machine to boot so you can upgrade it,
please grab me on IRC and we'll debug it

[Matthew East (mdke)]

yeah the problem persists: ALERT! /dev/sda8 does not exist!

I missed you on irc today, so I'll try tomorrow. I'm on in the evenings, so if
we miss each other, we'll have to do it via bugzilla :)

Matt

[Matthew East (mdke)]

All is looking peachy with new udev. Thanks!