Comment 15 for bug 464411

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Georgi (gkourtev) wrote : Re: [Bug 464411] Re: After upgrade to Karmic, root partition (sda1) is missing /dev/sda1 is missing from /dev/disk/by-uuid

It says:

$ls -la /dev/disk/by-uuid
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 2009-10-30
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 120 2009-10-30
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-10-30 01cceacc-c363-4295-8e9a-3792c9aa855d
->../../sda1
rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-10-30 4ef950ca-a29d-49df-a317-5d4ab18951a2
->../../sda5

2009/10/30 Andreas Schildbach <email address hidden>

> @Georgi: can you post the relevant line from your fstab?
>
> ** Package changed: ubuntu => linux (Ubuntu)
>
> --
> After upgrade to Karmic, root partition (sda1) is missing /dev/sda1 is
> missing from /dev/disk/by-uuid
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464411
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>
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> After upgrading of a working Jaunty to Karmic final, it would not boot into
> the system and instead hang in the initramdisk. I did NOT yet upgrade to
> ext4 or grub2.
>
> Booting with safe mode reveals that it could not find my main partition
> (which contains my now Karmic installation).
>
> Booting into a second karmic system on the sda2 reveals that sda1 is indeed
> not visible any more:
>
> $ ls -la /dev/disk/by-uuid
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Oct 30 09:22 .
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 120 Oct 30 09:22 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 30 09:22
> 500a11a1-86bd-4609-96ca-78797dfb772b -> ../../sda5
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 30 09:22
> b17e1aff-9f02-4fbd-81e5-9b1e6899baad -> ../../sda2
>
> Nevertheless, I can mount my main partition when I directly mount /dev/sda1
> from the second installation, so the filesystem is intact.
>
> When I start "Palimpsest", it shows my first partition as "54 GB
> unrecognized", which is a bit startling.
>
>
>