8.04 will not Boot

[America's Sweetheart]

Hi,

I upgraded to 8.04 from 7.10 inside Ubuntu. The upgrade seemed to go well. But when I rebooted, it hanged on "Searching for root file system" under the progress bar. I tried booting into recovery mode, but it hangs again and then says
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/21408609-95f3-42cd-8bbf-47b74776b85a does not exist!
Dropping to a shell!
I then get a BusyBox prompt (initramfs). All my HDDs are IDE. I looked and couldn't find a /dev/disk/ folder on the Linux partition. I checked fstab and here's what I found:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/hdb1 :
UUID=21408609-95f3-42cd-8bbf-47b74776b85a / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/hda1 :
UUID=5218B38618B3681D /media/hda1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 1
# Entry for /dev/hdb2 :
UUID=C608994008993103 /media/hdb2 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 1
# Entry for /dev/hdb3 :
UUID=30abbcfc-60cf-4f4f-8cb5-5a148fa7d873 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0

Thank you for any help,

America's Sweetheart

[America's Sweetheart]

bump :-(

[America's Sweetheart]

Oh well. I managed to get Ubuntu to boot by selecting the old kernel (2.14) from the list. But now my graphics card doesn't work at all. I'm stuck at 800x600. Ubuntu's driver is enabled. I was able to get it working somewhat in 7.10 by using Envy. No luck this time. I can't install the drivers using NVIDIA's file, either. I managed to stop the X-server, but I guess my compiler isn't the right version. (It's too NEW.) I've used SUSE 10.2, Fedora 8, Ubuntu 6.06, and Ubuntu 7.10. This is the most-buggy distro of them all.

[wandalalakers]

I can't get my screensavers to work even though I have envyNG installed. I might go back to 7.10 but I haven't decided yet.

[America's Sweetheart]

So is anyone going to help me?

I managed to get 8.04 to boot on my system by selecting the older kernel (6.22.14) from the boot menu. My video card (GE Force 7300) won't work at all now, though. I tried using EnvyNG, but that didn't work. I then tried running NVIDIA's installler. I pressed CTRL + ALT + F1 and then shut down the X server (/etc/init.d/gdm stop). Now it says that it can't build from source because my compiler is too new. I have 4.2, but since the kernel was built with 4.1, the installer won't work. I dowloaded the source code for 4.1 and typed ./configure, but it says, "cannot find install-sh or install.sh in . ./.. ./../.." Miraculously, though, I found gcc 4.1 in Synaptic. (It wasn't there before.) So, I installed 4.1, but I can't uninstall 4.2. Doing so removes gcc. If I re-install gcc, 4.2 re-appears.

[kacheng]

Try using this command to verify your disk's UUIDs.


ls /dev/disk/by-uuid -alh

Then you can double check against your /etc/fstab file.

[America's Sweetheart]

Try using this command to verify your disk's UUIDs.


ls /dev/disk/by-uuid -alh

Then you can double check against your /etc/fstab file.

Hi. Thanks for the reply. I typed that command just now, but the IDs match. On a brighter note, my NVIDIA card seems to work when I log into Ubuntu as root instead of a normal user.


total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 140 2008-04-25 17:52 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 120 2008-04-25 11:51 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-04-25 11:51 21408609-95f3-42cd-8bbf-47b74776b85a -> ../../hdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-04-25 11:51 30abbcfc-60cf-4f4f-8cb5-5a148fa7d873 -> ../../hdb3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-04-25 11:51 5218B38618B3681D -> ../../hda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-04-25 11:51 C608994008993103 -> ../../hdb2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-04-25 17:52 D439-4564 -> ../../sda1