I've got a similar problem with my mum's dapper installation. I installed the current 2.6.20-generic kernel from the feisty respository on a dapper machine, to fix a problem with not detecting a USB scanner at power-up (needed to unplug/replug to see it)
However I found in about 1 in 5 boots the 2.6.20 kernel failed to boot, with it waiting for ages with: Begin: Waiting for root file system... ... whenever this occurred it was preceeded by a: hda: ERROR PORTS ALREADY IN USE Its seems it might be a race condition, where the via v82cxxx driver doesn't always claim /dev/hda before ide-generic does. Which causes the boot to fail. After a while in the fault contidition it drops into a busybox shell and I found only/dev/hdc the cdrom drive was listed in /dev Not sure If I found a fix, but its booted 10 times without problem since I commented the ide-generic and recreated the initrd file for the 2.6.20 kernel as sort of explained in bug report 76872 -- ide-generic: load conflicts with IDE drivers (PORTS ALREADY IN USE) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/26998 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
