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EvansFive
November 9th, 2009, 04:43 PM
I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 yesterday, and all seemed to be well!!!!!

I have not upgraded to grub2, just thought I would get things stable with grub first!

When I tried to do a reboot, 9/10 times the boot would not complete and would seem to time out and go to a black screen.

Last message was waiting for root device.

I even tried booting in recovery mode which had a greater but not perfect success rate.

At the point of trashing the whole Ubuntu install....I found something relating to grub parameter "ROOTDELAY".

So I added "ROOTDELAY=120" to my menu.lst...and now it seems to boot ok!!!

I never had this problem with 9.04, is this a common issue? Is there a better way to get around this problem?

I would appreciate your assistance please.