On Feb 9, 2008 10:45 AM, Amit Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a completely updated Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (7.10). Recently there > have been some random problem. Sometimes when I try to boot there seems to > be no activity on the splash screen and after a while it takes me to the > initramfs prompt (Failure to mount root filesystem). But again sometimes it > boots just fine with no problems whatsoever. > > I found that this was a bug. [1] > The only solution to get around this problem was to append > "all_generic_ide" to the root line in menu.lst. But I read in the bug > report discussion that it may hamper the performance of my HDDs (which are > already slow). Is there any other way to get around this problem? > > [1] > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/67256 > > I noticed that after appending "all_generic_ide" to the kernel line in menu.lst, all my partitions are listed as sata devices! My IDE HDDs appear under /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
Also, to add to the randomness my NTFS partition (Windows XP) is not mounted automatically as it used to be. Does anybody knows a sensible solution to this problem? Regards, Amit. > > > > -- > http://mckagan.googlepages.com -- http://mckagan.googlepages.com -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
