I have a completely updated Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (7.10). Recently there have been some random problem. Sometimes when I try to boot there seems to be no activity on the splash screen and after a while it takes me to the initramfs prompt (Failure to mount root filesystem). But again sometimes it boots just fine with no problems whatsoever.
I found that this was a bug. [1] The only solution to get around this problem was to append "all_generic_ide" to the root line in menu.lst. But I read in the bug report discussion that it may hamper the performance of my HDDs (which are already slow). Is there any other way to get around this problem?
[1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/67256
Regards, Amit.
On Feb 9, 2008 10:45 AM, Amit Joshi mckagan@gmail.com wrote:
I have a completely updated Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (7.10). Recently there have been some random problem. Sometimes when I try to boot there seems to be no activity on the splash screen and after a while it takes me to the initramfs prompt (Failure to mount root filesystem). But again sometimes it boots just fine with no problems whatsoever.
I found that this was a bug. [1] The only solution to get around this problem was to append "all_generic_ide" to the root line in menu.lst. But I read in the bug report discussion that it may hamper the performance of my HDDs (which are already slow). Is there any other way to get around this problem?
[1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/67256
I noticed that after appending "all_generic_ide" to the kernel line in menu.lst, all my partitions are listed as sata devices! My IDE HDDs appear under /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
Also, to add to the randomness my NTFS partition (Windows XP) is not mounted automatically as it used to be.
Does anybody knows a sensible solution to this problem?
Regards, Amit.
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Amit Joshi