...and now a whole bunch of failures in a row, failing differently. I'm only now running after trying 2.6.20-6-generic without the serial console. 2nd time was the charm.
Now, 2.6.20-6-generic seems to boot reliably after not trying 2.6.20-8-generic anymore. Hopefully there's some common thread in all this. I cannot see it. ** Attachment added: "Pile of ugly failures" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6489186/linux-11.log -- kernel/initramfs >2.6.20-6 fails to init RAID/LVM root https://launchpad.net/bugs/86384 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs