7.04 not booting

[Brian Burger]

On 4/27/07, Glen Merrick <at903 at chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:
> The forums are awash with the rage of jilted users.
>
> What's happening is that in the latest kernel build 2.6.20.wtf,
> someone....Ubuntu/Canonical forgot to _add all the_ SATA drivers at boot
> time as kernel modules. I have a laptop that was working quite fine
> under 6.10 but the update to 7.04 borked it.
>
> The problem seems to occurr when you have a SATA drive as the
> only/primary device in the system under a previous version of the OS. If
> you were to put your live CD into the computer and boot, neither Gparted
> or parted can find any SATA drive.

Interesting - my sole HD is SATA, has been since Breezy, and I've
never had any issues, including during my upgrade from Edgy to Feisty
last week. I upgraded in place, though. Is this only a problem on
initial installation/re-installation?

Brian
ubuntu-ca.org