[Bug 48277] Hang after Dapper upgrade: "Waiting for root file system..."

[Jim Gettys]

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I upgraded to Dapper from Breezy; it is a Compaq desktop machine with a
Athlon CPU which has conventional IDE disks.

Very early in the boot sequence the machine says:
"Waiting for root file system..." and sits for a number of minutes.

It then drops me into a busybox shell, which tells me:
ALERT! /dev/hda2 does not exist. dropping to a shell!

This sounds much like bug, 37639 but is, it appears, significantly
different hardware.

** Affects: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Incomplete

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Hang after Dapper upgrade: "Waiting for root file system..."
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/48277