After some furthere experimentation and usage of the system it is clear that this happens when ever i try to boot using the 2.6.27.11 kernel, if i use the 2.6.24.23 kernal (8.04.1) every thing works swimingly, the version number is the only difference in the two enteries on menu.lst. I have tried sudo apt-get purge linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic, sudo apt- get install linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic to no avail.
Memtest86+ an Vista changeloader+ works just fine as well. Drive lay out disk0 1 NTFS partision with all things VISTA disk1 1 ext3 with all things ubuntu and grub, and 1 swap partision disk2 1 NTFS partision with some shared data on it. disk3 0 partisions -- After updating 8.04.1 to 8.10, system halts at wating for root device. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343983 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