Comment 11 for bug 244608

I have made some progress in debugging this by adding the debug option to the grub boot line.

This produces a file /tmp/initramfs.debug which can be seen when at the busybox prompt

This file contains the following significant line near the end:

panic ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/04432635-ee53-4a9e-bf49-231c672b38ac does not exist. Dropping to shell.

I checked and in fact /dev/disk/by-uuid/04432635-ee53-4a9e-bf49-231c672b38ac does exist and is pointing to /dev/sda10

When I type exit a normal boot resumes HOWEVER the disk with uuid 04432635-ee53-4a9e-bf49-231c672b38ac is mounted as /dev/sdb10 not /dev/sda10 as it is in hardy.

I executed sudo blkid after this normal boot and obtained the following strange output

/dev/sda5: UUID="6707952b-349c-4cc4-96e4-34147b25930d" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" LABEL="/scratch"
/dev/sda6: UUID="f8048a1c-68e7-4f26-9d6e-0e43de790488" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda7: UUID="2f0175ef-bd42-41e2-8e32-c92a155da5ab" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda9: LABEL="/home" UUID="2854cb27-da6e-44bd-ba7c-18879b5621e3" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb5: UUID="2aed16dc-cfb2-49c7-b656-ae238b383997" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb6: UUID="f8048a1c-68e7-4f26-9d6e-0e43de790488" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb7: UUID="2f0175ef-bd42-41e2-8e32-c92a155da5ab" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb9: LABEL="/home" UUID="2854cb27-da6e-44bd-ba7c-18879b5621e3" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb8: TYPE="swap" UUID="b32dca01-b5bf-47df-bdab-7c33db2ad874"
/dev/sdb10: UUID="04432635-ee53-4a9e-bf49-231c672b38ac" TYPE="ext3"

Compare this with the hardy output:

/dev/sda5: UUID="2aed16dc-cfb2-49c7-b656-ae238b383997" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb5: UUID="6707952b-349c-4cc4-96e4-34147b25930d" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" LABEL="/scratch"
/dev/sda6: UUID="f8048a1c-68e7-4f26-9d6e-0e43de790488" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda7: UUID="2f0175ef-bd42-41e2-8e32-c92a155da5ab" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda8: TYPE="swap" UUID="b32dca01-b5bf-47df-bdab-7c33db2ad874"
/dev/sda9: LABEL="/home" UUID="2854cb27-da6e-44bd-ba7c-18879b5621e3" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda10: UUID="04432635-ee53-4a9e-bf49-231c672b38ac" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"

By way of information I have two disks on this system which are seen in hardy as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb

I will attach the /etc/fstab files for both intrepid and hardy