Upgrade 8.04->9.10 fails: crash to tty, claims can't mount rootfs (bitter)

[Alvin]

On Wednesday 11 November 2009 00:22:11 Dexter Filmore wrote:
> > Just a small 'me too'.
> > After the update to Karmic *or* fresh installations, a lot of servers no
> > longer find their boot drives. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
> > Is there already a bug number for this?
> 
> Yeah, it's called "Canonical finally struck out with boldness and have to
>  sort out the mess that rushing releases causes". Don't have the number
>  handy, sorry.

I couldn't find one either. Weird, because I'm seeing this on every single 
installation of Karmic.
There is a small related thread on Ubuntu forums.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1319976

I filed a bug. Please comment on this bug and confirm if you have the same 
problems:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lvm2/+bug/460914
I consider this very critical, but so far there have been no responses on 
Launchpad.