Boot Ubuntu without UUID

[rudihawk]

I had the same issue today after updating my system. Fixed it by hitting "e" before the kernel booted from the grub menu.

Then changed the root= argument to

root=/dev/sdXX

somehow all this got messed up in the update.

That allowed it to boot in normally, where I was able to fix the problem properly (more updates, and edited my /etc/fstab)

For some wierd reason it refused to boot properly using UUID's and all my drives assignments got messed around. /dev/sda became /dev/sdc.

[Bkock]

I was able to remove the UUID at start up and inserted /dev/sda1 which allows the system to boot correctly but I noticed this is only a temporary fix. As I am very new to ubuntu / linux I would like to know what fix you performed in /etc/fstab or how would I edit the grub file and save it so the system would use /dev/sda1 at boot.

Thanks