Greetings ...

[Jim Kielman]

On 10-08-30 12:03 PM, Guy Stalnaker wrote:
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> Hello all.
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> I recently was caught by a driver issue in a kernel update from Lucid
> 10.04 64-bit on my Dell desktop at work that required me to upgrade to
> Maverick Alpha 3. In case anyone is wondering, after the update no
> system restart, the boot process dropped into an initramfs prompt
> reporting that device /dev/sda did not exist.  This was, of course, not
> true as I'd just been using before the reboot.  I could boot to a LiveCD
> and mount the drive, etc. This wasn't a grub misconfiguration error as
> the boot process hadn't even gotten to the point of reading the grub
> configuration. A bit of searching on the Ubuntu Forums turned up some
> posts form other folks having the same error. One post said installing
> Maverick fixed the problem, and it did for me.
>
> Since now I'm using the Alpha 3 version and there are some issues with
> it I figured I'd report them. Having gone through the remarkably
> thorough process getting on LaunchPad, into the Ubuntu Testing group,
> signing the Code of Conduct, etc. I'm sending this first email to the list.
>
> As I'm not talking about specific application bugs, where there is
> application failure, but more behavioural or cosmetic issues, what is
> the best way for me to proceed?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Guy S
>
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There is a sub-forum devoted to Maverick Meerkat on the forums:

http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=385

If you check in there, most of the problems have been discussed and 
either work arounds of a way to solve the problem have been posted. Keep 
in mind that the beta is scheduled to be released on Thursday Sept. 2/2010.