Just was able to fix my first boot issue by pressing 'M' for manual recover then doing the following:
mount -o remount,rw / dpkg --configure -a # Lots of packages were configured (due to a failed dist-upgrade) apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get install gdm-guest-session gdm ubuntu-desktop # Some packages were complaining about not configuring properly grub-install /dev/sda Aside from some weird issues with my BIOS entering a reboot loop, the dist-upgrade seems to have worked alright. There are still 2 problems I'm having: 1) It doesn't seem to boot correctly from the first HDD if USB-HDD or CDROM are anywhere above in the boot priority list 2) Every so often I still get the "softreset" and "The disk drive for /home is not ready yet or not present" errors (This is random.. it's usually /home, /, or whatever other partition happens to complain). AHCI vs IDE modes in the BIOS don't change anything. I'm guessing it's a Gigabyte motherboard issue, or something to do with the ATI SB7x0 chipset. So far I haven't tried compiling a new kernel with "CONFIG_SATA_PMP=n" yet... but that seems like it might work... References: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468800 http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git-commits-head/2008/6/14/2122314 http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1052987.html http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2642.msg33590#msg33590 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285392 Title: Softreset failed (device not ready) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/285392/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
