The problem was solved with the help of this link http://ggts.net/2008/05/13/reading-files-needed-to-boot/. While re-sizing my partitions I had moved the swap but the old UUID was still in /etc/fstab and /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume.
Lars Adermalm wrote: > Dear all, > > I've probably screwed up something. I don't know exactly how or when, > but probably it happened when I re-sized my partitions - less for root > and more for home. > > Anyway, now when I start up Ubuntu I first come to the new sexy > start-up screen in Jaunty but after some seconds it starts "reading > files needed to boot..." and list them all over the screen like in > "safe mode" until it arrives at the login window when everything is > back to normal. I cannot find any problems while working inside Ubuntu > so it is not serious in that sense. However, it is very annoying when > you want to show off your nice Ubuntu installation to friends and > booting up looks like in the old DOS days or even worse almost like > the famous blue screen in M$. > > It has never happened to me before so is there a remedy other than to > re-install from scratch? > > Thanks / Lars >
