I just went through a relatively nightmarish dist-upgrade from Dapper to Edgy.
Unfortunately, I was unable to capture the exact message which scrolled by -- the significance of it was unclear to me at the time -- but during the dist-upgrade, there was a message to the effect that I had duplicate UUID:s on my system, and that using UUID would not be possible. (I'm not familiar with the concept, so it's not very easy for me to actually troubleshoot this. Any hints are most welcome.) However, my grub/menu.lst was nevertheless "upgraded" to use UUID:s. Attempting to boot the system resulted in around a minute of the bootup splash screen with the progress bar not moving at all, and then eventually a BusyBox initramfs shell and no particular hints about how to proceed from there. Luckily, I was able to boot back into a working system by guessing that root=/dev/hda1 would be better than root=UUID=72616e646f6d-686578-67617262616765 hda1 is a PATA device and I also have a second SATA disk on sda1 ... I'm including the output from lshw just to be on the safe side. ** Attachment added: "era's lshw" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5943935/lshw -- edgy update-grub destroys kopt https://launchpad.net/bugs/62195 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
