I discovered what was wrong. At boot the laptop waited for the root filesystem to be ready and only after 180 seconds it dropped a shell. The disk was mountable, but it was expecting to find the root on /dev/evms/hda2 , while I only had /dev/hda2
Also with lvm2 the problem remains, I solved it by changing /etf/fstab and grub's config pointing back to /dev/hda2. I'm a bit disappointed, because when I upgraded from dapper to edgy the normal fstab was updated with UUID and grub from /dev/hda2 to /dev/evms/hda2 and because of that I was without swap (not really a big deal but annoying for the first day until I discovered it). Now, with or without lvm2 the ramdisk doesn't work, but by reverting to the old situation I had in dapper everything works very well. I'm not familiar with UUID and lvm, but I suspect that anyway the bug is in the ramdisk, because there's no /dev/evms directory. Just a final hint for other users upgrading to feisty: if boot hangs without giving a kernel panic just wait for three minutes, you'll get a shell and you'll be able to verify if the correct device file is present or not. -- After dist-upgrade from edgy, feisty doesn't boot https://launchpad.net/bugs/90765 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
