Ubuntu server cannot find the root device

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Asif Iqbal (vadud3 at gmail.com):
> I am back to same problem
> 
> this is how my fstab looks like
> 
> proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
> /dev/sda2 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1

If you like, you might use blkid to find the UUID of /dev/sda2, and use
that.

> UUID=ad5e933e-d6bf-0df0-dac9-edcf54bcf06d none            swap    sw
>            0       0
> UUID="9b3de848-b6e7-4c6b-9659-89875da35403"	/opt/splunk	ext4	defaults	0	0
> 
> but /proc/cmdline still using the UUID of /dev/md1
> BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-27-generic
> root=UUID=08febc85-9ce2-40ac-a354-e006f709a586 ro console=ttyS0,9600n8
> 
> any idea why?

You've not run update-grub?