Waiting for root filesystem delay on booting Edgy solved by update-initramfs (was: getting cpuindex for acpiid 0xnn)

I've got the same problem - with different number:

"getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x01"

Message comes up on a black screen at boot time, and there is a long delay before the PC successfully boots.

Clean install of Edgy beta.

AMD64 processor (single core), Gigabyte motherboard with NVidia 430 chipset with NVidia 6150 integrated graphics

Forgot to say - this is the AMD64 build that I'm using.

Also - other people are reporting this issue:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1526315

Hello,

I have the same problem with an amd64 socket 939.
The motherboard is an asrock dual vista.

The message is "[17.330722] ACPI: getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x2.

When I start boot with -acpi=off, the problem is still the same but the error message doesn't appear.

Thanks for support.

Same problem here.

I want do a clean Installation of Edgy and while booting the Alternate-CD (Daily 16.10.2006)
i'm getting the same messages:
"ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x02"
"ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x03"
"ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x04"

...and nothing else happened. The installation program didn't start and i could not reboot.

same here, but only with -generic kernel, with i386 kernel no problem!

I have an Athlon64 3000+ and kubuntu edgy final version upgraded from dapper, all 32 bit only.

Forgot to say my error:
[17179574.528000] ACPI: getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x1

Same problem here...

$ uname -a
Linux doyle 2.6.17-10-386 #2 Fri Oct 13 18:41:40 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 47
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 1000.000
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow up pni lahf_lm ts fid vid ttp tm stc
bogomips : 2012.19

had the same problem. it seemed an acpi problem at first, but it turned out it was related to my hard drive not being properly detected. if you remove "quiet splash" from the kernel boot options (in grub) you will see that the last kernel message is "Waiting for root filesystem..." instead of "getting cpuindex of acpiid".

anyway, the way i fixed it was rebuilding the initramfs. in ubuntu you can do that by issuing this command:

update-initramfs -k 2.6.17-10-generic -c

or replace 2.6.17-10-generic with the kernel version you want to generate the initramfs for.

pablohoffman has right, it's not the real message the cpuindex!
For me the real one was:
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq14

Also the update-initramfs fixes the problem also for me, but don't know why the one created wasn't valid.

Hardy Heron 8.04 was recently released. It would be helpful if you could test the new release and verify if this is still an issue - http://www.ubuntu.com/testing . Please let us know your results. Thanks.

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Sorry for my poor English.
I've the same problem here!

$ uname -a
Linux hp-510 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Jun 18 14:43:41 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

running ubuntu 8.04.1
my laptop delays for about 15/20 secs..

Do you need some more info before i go with update-initramfs?

Thanks a lot for your work!
abe.

In case update-initramfs fixes the issue it would maybe be good to have the /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic file from before and after running the update-initramfs command. Please let the linux-source-2.6.17 task closed as this is the old kernel. The Ubuntu 8.04.1 kernel task is just "linux".

me again..
this time is on my laptop.. fresh ubuntu 8.04.1 installation with ms win vista in the first partition.

$ uname -a
Linux Extensa-5210 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Fri Jul 11 23:41:49 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

i've tried several things (update-initramfs, edit and update-grub..) with no success!
.. waiting for root help! ^^
thanks in advance!

Same with 2.6.24-20.. update-initramfs doesn't fix the problem.. i can't be of any help..

2.6.17 is the old edgy kernel, which is not supported anymore. This bug is about update-initramfs actually solving the issue, you are probably running in a different bug.

You're right! I've changed status by mistake! Sorry!
Probably i'm running in a different bug, but the symptoms are quite identical.. what should i look for in my logs to find out the problem? .. i'm not experienced at all.. =) ok, sorry for the inconvenience, i will look for a solution! Thanks a lot for your work!
- abe.