Kernel crash on startup

This bug is fixed in 2.6.20-12.20

I've installed this kernel this morning, but I saw no difference with the precedent version... The same problem remains for me...Sorry...

Thank you Nicolas for your response. I will reopen this bug.

Edit the boot command during startup and remove 'quiet splash'. If you can, take a picture of the monitor at the point that the boot process stops and attach it to this bug report. Otherwise you'll have to copy the information displayed by hand.

An even easier way to do this is to select '(recovery mode)', then please can you take a digital photo of the information (stacktrace) just before the busybox prompt.

I also still have this problem. Using 2.6.20-13 and nothing.
I will post the lines before the hang as soon as I can get them photoed.

Attached is a photo of the screen where it hangs. Not sure how useful it will be, it detects all the devices and then just stops.

I am fairly competent with kernel stuff, let me know what else you need or if there's anything i should try. No problem compiling my own kernel etc.

ps. if there are two of us still with this issue, there are more. releasing a kernel this broken in feisty would be bad. i would upgrade the importance.

I've solved the issue.

My drive used to be hda and now its sda. Don't know (or need to know) why its now SCSI.

For me at least, the problem was not letting the stock /usr/sbin/update-grub script run (I use my own). The shipped one successfully changes everything to root=/dev/sda6

This should probably be mentioned in the release notes for feisty somewhere, as anyone who does not run update-grub will hit this problem (if their machine is like mine).

But the bug can be closed.

Seems to be OK if I replace "/dev/hda3" by "/dev/sda3" but when I restarted, I got nothing with usplash, and when I disabled it, I got "resume : could not stat the resume device file; Press Enter to boot the system". Trying to press "Enter" on normal boot with usplash gives nothing.

The main problem : all partitions on an IDE hard drive are recognised as sd* ones.
Other problem : with resume, but I don't know what it is.

Nicolas:

In your /boot/grub/menu.lst you most likely have a resume=/dev/hdaX in the kernel options. Change that also to sda. Also check your /etc/fstab for /dev/hdaX entries.

Or try this:

Make a backup of your /boot/grub/menu.lst file
and then run

sudo /usr/bin/update-grub

That should fix the problem.

If not, let me know via email since I think this is no longer a bug of ubuntu but more of your and my setups being nonstandard (and mine is fixed by the sda thing).

It works, but I can't hibernate my computer... :/

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