Dapper LTS boot failure

[MKR]

Have you recently made any changes to boot order in the BIOS?

The problem appears to start with it not finding /dev/hda1, which
snowballs in to the other errors.

On 1/25/07, Maynard Wright <m-wright at eskimo.com> wrote:
> I'm using Dapper (6.06 LTS) on a Toshiba Satellite L25-S119 laptop.
>  I've encountered a failure to boot up.  The failure occurs at "mounting
> root filesystems."  The system diverts to the built-in shell "ash" after
> the messages listed below are displayed:
>
> Is there any way to recover from this failure without reinstalling Kubuntu?
>
>
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>
>    Booting 'Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-23-386'
>
> root (hd0,0)
>  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-23-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash
>    [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1c00, size=0x15774d]
> initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-23-386
>    [Linux-initrd @ 0xb81c000, 0x673bf7 bytes]
> savedefault
> boot
> Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
> mount: Mounting /dev/hda1 on /root failed: No such device
> mount: Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file or
> directory
> mount: Mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
> mount: Mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory
> Target filesytem doesn't have /sbin/init
>
> BusyBox v1.01 (Debian 1:1.01-4ubuntu3) Built-in shell (ash)
> Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
>
> /bin/sh: can't access tty: job control turned off
> #
>
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>
> Thanks,
>
> Maynard
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