If only I had known that there was a simple fix! Over the five days and nights that the machine was down, I followed a lot of advice from a lot of people offering their well-intended and, of course, completely free support. Many thanks to all who helped or left hints in blogs, forums, newsgroups, etc.
-- "Waiting for root file system..." ...not found after kernel upgrade https://launchpad.net/bugs/52937 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
