Apologies for not updating on this, although there isn't really anything to update on it, I was waiting for some additional input and sadly the machine ended up running Windows (although the partial Ubuntu install is still present). Sorry Martin for not replying to your comment sooner, unfortunately I've had two close family bereavements so far this year which has taken me out of things a bit.
The bug still exists, and I do in fact still have the original machine in the same non-booting state (as far as Ubuntu is concerned, Windows was fine until recently). A work around that I should have done would be to move my HD onto the motherboard IDE and my DVD writers onto the PCI card. This configuration is more down to the way two other machines were configured that had older on board IDE controllers with the 137G limit on drive sizes, which this motherboard doesn't have. That doesn't address resolving the bug though, so I initially resisted doing that. I am currently rebuilding my network, and the Windows install on this machine has started blue screening every boot, so it will be being stripped and rebuilt very soon now. I have no idea whether the ITE chipset itself is at fault (i.e. whether a motherboard ITE8212 has the same problem) or whether the use of the PCI card has an impact. What I plan to do is test the install with subsequent Ubuntu releases before the rebuild (there have been 3 now!!). I will then feedback to this bug with my findings. -- Unable to mount root partition on reboot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/157468 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
