Public bug reported:
System is a Uniwill / Gericom laptop, Mob P4 3.06GHz, Nvidia FX5600.
Single HD, multi-partitioned, WinXP/Ubuntu dual boot; Win on sda1 master,
Ubuntu on sda5.
Updated from latest Jaunty 9.04 build to Karmic 9.10 alpha 1.
With every boot of Karmic Alpha1, loading fails with "Gave up waiting for root
device". (This error is reported in other bugs but the symptoms are different
here:)
The screen becomes blank, save for a flashing cursor, top left, this seems to
be F7.
Work-around:
Alt-Ctrl-F1
(initramfs)
cd /dev/disk/by-uuid
ln -s ../../sda5 ddf9ca86-0e5a-4148-bc13-0f0339dad55e
exit
-------------
The system continues to boot and load gdm normally. The above work-
around is required for every boot. On switching to F1, the error message
that occurred before it dropped to the initramfs shell includes the HD
ID number, so no need to remember it. The above ID is of course unique
to my disk.
The system successfully built a symbolic link to the swap file ID going
(in my case) to sda6, as well as links to the other partitions (three
more NTFS). Only the link for ext2 sda5 required manual intervention.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
System is a Uniwill / Gericom laptop, Mob P4 3.06GHz, Nvidia FX5600.
Single HD, multi-partitioned, WinXP/Ubuntu dual boot; Win on sda1 master,
Ubuntu on sda5.
Updated from latest Jaunty 9.04 build to Karmic 9.10 alpha 1.
With every boot of Karmic Alpha1, loading fails with "Gave up waiting for
root device". (This error is reported in other bugs but the symptoms are
different here:)
- The screen becomes blank, save for a flashing cursor, top right, this seems
to be F7.
+ The screen becomes blank, save for a flashing cursor, top left, this seems to
be F7.
Work-around:
Alt-Ctrl-F1
(initramfs)
cd /dev/disk/by-uuid
ln -s ../../sda5 ddf9ca86-0e5a-4148-bc13-0f0339dad55e
exit
-------------
The system continues to boot and load gdm normally. The above work-
around is required for every boot. On switching to F1, the error message
that occurred before it dropped to the initramfs shell includes the HD
ID number, so no need to remember it. The above ID is of course unique
to my disk.
The system successfully built a symbolic link to the swap file ID going
(in my case) to sda6, as well as links to the other partitions (three
more NTFS). Only the link for ext2 sda5 required manual intervention.
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[karmic] fails to find root due to missing symbolic link file
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/377405
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