Comment 13 for bug 278176

I saw this as well. lspci reports that I have an Adaptec AHA-3960D controller. Since the device got detected a few seconds after the "(initramfs)" prompt appeared, I was able to boot the system by just typing "exit". I guess the startup scripts will re-scan for the boot device after the busybox shell exits (the first time, anyway).

Isn't the "correct" fix to add this to the commented "kopt=..." line like this?

## ## Start Default Options ##
## default kernel options
## default kernel options for automagic boot options
## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z
## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted.
## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
## kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro
## kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro
# kopt=root=UUID=d5373d24-cbe4-46be-a4cd-b3457985915a ro rootdelay=40

...and then, run the update-grub tool? This way, the changes you've made won't get overwritten the next time the update-grub script gets run during a kernel install/upgrade.