[Bug 837946] Re: Lucid cannot boot from filesystems with multiple signatures

[Chris Jones]

(fwiw the additional filesystem signatures were two VFAT ones named
'DellUtility' so presumably relate to recovery partitions that were not
entirely erased when we formatted and installed Ubuntu)

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Title:
  Lucid cannot boot from filesystems with multiple signatures

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “util-linux” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Having upgraded a Dell PowerEdge from hardy to lucid we found it unable to boot, instead falling to an initramfs with an error that it couldn't find the root filesystem.
  blkid -p on the boot device claimed ambivalent results due to multiple filesystem signatures.

  Simply removing the (two) incorrect VFAT signatures on the device with
  wipefs allowed the system to boot normally.

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