Final update. After further investigation, it seems that update-initramfs on my 12.04 LTS partition was merely a symlink to /bin/true
The "real" update-initramfs was diverted to /usr/sbin/update- initramfs.distrib I am guessing there was just a hiccup in ubiquity during the install, perhaps? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974765 Title: Drive not found since 3.2.0-21... kernel panic, unable to mount root fs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/974765/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs