[ubuntu-uk] Cannot boot after upgrade to Lucid

[Matthew Daubney]

On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 19:13 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote:
> On 3 May 2010 at 18:47, Matthew Daubney wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 18:34 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote:
> > > Hi all
> > > 
> > > I have posted the following bug
> > > 
> > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/573776
> > > 
> > > but got no response yet so I wonder if anyone on the list can help 
> > > me?
> > > 
> > > It seems that the only way I can get at my partitions is by using my 
> > > USB stick.  So I can pull of log files, etc and modify any config files, if 
> > > needed.
> > > 
> > > Tony
> > 
> > Hello,
> > That error is related to your graphics card. What gfx card and what RAM
> > do you have?
> > 
> > Here's the error in the drivers code
> > 
> > if (rdev->family == CHIP_RS400 || rdev->family == CHIP_RS480) {
> >                 /* FIXME: RS400 & RS480 seems to have issue with GART size
> >                  * if 4G of system memory (needs more testing) */
> >                 rdev->mc.gtt_size = 32 * 1024 * 1024;
> >                 DRM_ERROR("Forcing to 32M GART size (because of ASIC bug ?)\n");
> >         }
> > 
> > Can you let us know what hardware your system has and we can look a bit further. 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > -Matt Daubney
> > 
> 
> Matt: Graphics is ATI Radeon Xpress 200 onboard which uses some 
> of the system RAM.  The PC itself is an HP Pavilion t3510.uk desktop 
> with an HPvs17x flatscreen monitor and 1GB Ram.
> 
> John: The kernel is whatever kernel Lucid installs (I can confirm it, if 
> you want but shutting XP & rebooting takes an age)
> 
> Matt: Note booting in Recovery mode and with old kernel also fails.
> 
> Tony
> 
The other question is, what partitions do you keep on the software raid?
ureadahead doesn't like /var having it's own partition apparently.