Public bug reported: Binary package hint: initramfs-tools
As described in this post http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/disk-byuuid-does-not-exist/ (german) I get the error message above directy after booting into the (new) kernels 2.6.27-9-generic and 2.6.24-21-generic in about ~50% of the boots. If so, the system says "gave up waiting for root device" and drops me into the initramfs shell (See http://media.ubuntuusers.de/forum/attachments/1752674/initramfs.png). In the other 50% of the cases the system boots and I can check my configuration with sudo blkid /dev/sda1: UUID="1A5093135092F4AB" TYPE="ntfs" /dev/sdb1: UUID="b8116d40-b60a-48bf-a387-e525095c44f7" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sdb2: UUID="d4bd4a19-8f56-4c0e-8e7a-742582df5577" TYPE="jfs" /dev/sdb5: TYPE="swap" UUID="91cdb49a-f28e-4ce2-b171-baf6c423f31d". In other cases, when the boot was successful (on the same system) I get a config like this: sudo blkid /dev/sda1: UUID="b8116d40-b60a-48bf-a387-e525095c44f7" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sdb1: UUID="1A5093135092F4AB" TYPE="ntfs" /dev/sda2: UUID="d4bd4a19-8f56-4c0e-8e7a-742582df5577" TYPE="jfs" /dev/sda5: TYPE="swap" UUID="91cdb49a-f28e-4ce2-b171-baf6c423f31d" (/sda1 and /sdb1 swapped) sdb1 is my Linux partition (on a SATA drive) while sda1 should be my Win partition (IDE). I changed my groot like this ## default grub root device ## e.g. groot=(hd0,0) # groot=b8116d40-b60a-48bf-a387-e525095c44f7 so, that my boot entry looks like this title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-9-generic uuid b8116d40-b60a-48bf-a387-e525095c44f7 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-9-generic root=UUID=b8116d40-b60a-48bf-a387-e525095c44f7 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-9-generic quiet If I change it to title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-9-generic root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-9-generic root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-9-generic the system doesn't boot at all. With the older kernel 2.6.24-19-generic everything works fine. My device.map: cat /boot/grub/device.map (hd0) /dev/sda (hd1) /dev/sdb As you can see on http://media.ubuntuusers.de/forum/attachments/1752674/initramfs.png, my linux device is not listed by initramfs (it should have an id like ATA SAMSUNG HD502IJ). ** Affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- /disk/by-uuid/ does not exist https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311927 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
