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  1. Bug #33269
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Comment 24 for bug 33269

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Starry Steve (stevem-xnet) wrote : Re: root filesystem fails to mount (sata_nv module is loaded)

After opening question #7704 here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/7704 I was told that I have hit this bug, so here goes.

This concerns Xubuntu v7.04 alternate CD, with linux v2.6.20.

In summary, I have an old Toshiba Satellite 200CDS laptop, with P166 processor with 48Mb memory, a floppy, one 2Gb IDE HD, and a CD-ROM drive. I created a fresh partition table and partitions on the hard drive, and after several attempts, and finally by using these kernel options : acpi=off pci=biosirq ide=nodma idebus=66, I was able to sucessully install from the Xubuntu v7.04 alternate CD. However, upon reboot I found that it failed to mount the root filesystem. When I looked in /dev, there were no /dev/hd* or /dev/sd* devices.

Not sure if this is relevant, but: when I booted from another linux live CD (DSL) and checked the hard disk, I could see that /dev/hda, /dev/hda1, etc all existed as they should, but there was no /dev/disks directory where the uuid links to the partitions are supposed to be. I reinstalled grub, and that fixed the missing links, but it didn't solve the main problem of being able to boot from the HD.

Thanks,
- Steve