<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> On 08/03/2010 17:00, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:moki@mweb.co.za">moki@mweb.co.za</a> wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:MWSJHBMC021fa2a512e3dd4c649181e97668deaf93@MWSJHBMC02" type="cite">Thanks for the response! I have removed "splash VGA=788 quiet splash". I then pressed ctrl x and I got the following A whole string of commands start running. What I am left with on the screen is as follows: Begin: Loading essential drivers..... Done Begin: Mounting root file system..... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top... Done Begin: Waiting for root file system... Done Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems: -Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) -Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?) -Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?) -Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev) ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/3cf5e4db-78ae-46de-af8a-18aebc95f44 does not exist. Dropping to a shell! BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu7) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built in commands. (initramfs) _ </blockquote> Weird.. "/dev/disk/by-uuid/3cf5e4db-78ae-46de-af8a-18aebc95f44 does not exist" is usually because the UUID of the disk changed (for example when you replace it with a new one). Follow the same instructions as before and replace "/dev/disk/by-uuid/3cf5e4db-78ae-46de-af8a-18aebc95f44" with /dev/sda1 .As far as I know most disks are picked up as /dev/sdx in recent versions of Ubuntu. If you want to use the UUID just boot from a livecd and run ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ and you'll have the correct UUID for the disk. </body> </html>