Kernel Upgrade Problem in Feisty

[Derek Broughton]

das wrote:

> 2.6.17-11-generic kernel which was working quite fine till last night,
> is stopping there after mounting the root file system, the message is
> something like "Waiting for the root file system ...", though the
> earlier line showed that the root file system is mounted. 

I can't help you but this isn't a particularly strange message - the root FS
is initially mounted read-only, and always gets remounted later.  Maybe you
need to run fsck on the partition.
-- 
derek