I managed to update my problematic machine to Karmic. A curious thing
that I forgot to mention before, this PC does boot if I try it *less
than TEN MINUTES after turning off Windows XP*. Each time I want to use
Ubuntu on this machine I have to boot Windows first, then restart the
machine and boot Ubuntu in a few minutes, it's the only way to make it
work. I just updated to Karmic and installed updates, including Kernel
2.6.31.16. Then, 40 minutes later, I try to boot and it failed again. It
did not display the traditional "SRST failed...." but instead this
(which looks more or less the same to me):
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:5167c2530e6
-Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
-Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
-Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
Alert! dev/disk/by-uuid/2fa287a6-1db7-4d36-670b-55167c2530e6 does not exist.
Dropping to a shell!
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So the problem is still there...
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Boot fails on ata3: SRST failed (errno=-16)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220706
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