Dapper2 FT2, boot problems

[Magnus Therning]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 06:01:40PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
>Magnus Therning wrote:
>
>> Downloaded Dapper FT2 and put it on a CD yesterday. Installed it today,
>> non-expert mode, without any problems. Chose to use two partitions on my
>> SATA disk (only have one disk in the computer):
>> 
>>  /dev/sda7 -> /boot
>>  /dev/sda8 -> /
>> 
>> Booting works fine until the kernel is loaded. Then I get the message
>> that /dev/sda8 couldn't be found and I'm dropped into a BusyBox.
>> 
>> Grub entry:
>> 
>>  title           Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-8-386
>>  root            (hd0,6)
>>  kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.15-8-386 root=/dev/sda8 ro quiet
>>  initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.15-8-386
>>  savedefault
>>  boot
>> 
>> Any idea on how to solve it?
>> 
>
>Not really - it's what I saw with the earlier 2.6.15 kernels, though I think
>the actual fix was in udev.  I'm now using 2.6.15-8-686 (note the 686) and
>udev 077-0ubuntu5 and the problem's gone away.  Otherwise, you might need
>an earlier kernel (the previous one I'd used was 2.6.12-9-686).

Those are the exact versions that are shipped with the Dapper FT2 CD
(well, since I'm on a AMD machine I tried k7).

I'm downloading the kernel sources while writing this to see if I can
find a way to solve it...

/M

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