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[Shannon VanWagner <shannon.vanwagner@xxxxxxxxx>]

Correction: replace: "I get the feeling that using the
initrd.img-3.0.0-12-generic with the 3.0.0-12-generic kernel is causing my
sound not to work.."
with: "I get the feeling that using the initrd.img-3.0.0-12-generic with
the 3.0.0-18-generic kernel is causing my sound not to work.."

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Shannon VanWagner <
shannon.vanwagner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, I hope this is the right place to ask for help..
> I've been using Ubuntu 11.10 GNU/Linux on my Sony Vaio VPCZ with success
> - I wrote up the few steps I took to make it work for me at: http
> ://linux-on-sony-vaio-z.wikispaces.com/VPCZ114GX
>
> But now, I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 and it won't boot... Can't find the
> root device at /dev/by-uuid  (nothing shows up in there), then drops to
> busybox. I've tried a rootdelay=160 and that doesn't help. I also tried
> replacing the UUID with the path to /dev/mapper/isgwXXX-blah-blah but no
> success.
>
> What's crazy is that the Ubuntu 12.04 runs perfectly on this computer
> from the LiveCD, that's how I installed it on here. Would be nice if
> Ubuntu did some kind of sanity comparison check between the running
> LiveCD system and that which gets installed.  One thing I did notice
> that is weird though is that the partitions in /dev/mapper/isgwXXXXX are
> listed twice in the 12.04 installer.. This is different then when
> installing 11.10 - where there's only one set of partitions listed
> there. I made sure to install the grub on the base /dev/mapper/isgwXXXX-
> blah device so I don't think it's a grub problem. And when I inspect the
> UUIDs of the drives in the installed grub.cfg - they match to those
> listed for the partitions when I run the LiveCD.
>
> So here's how I'm booted into this system now... I went and reinstalled
> Ubuntu 11.10 to my separate root partition, then I copied over the
> /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-12-generic to my separate /home drive that has
> been preserved the whole time. I then reinstalled 12.04 to my root
> partition, backed up initrd.img-3.2.0-18-generic, copied
> initrd.img-3.0.0-12-generic with a rename to
> /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-18-generic and the system now boots. There are
> some error messages from the land of /lib that show during startup, and
> sound doesn't work, but the system boots and that's how I'm submitting
> this.
>
> So.. is it a initrd.img-3.0.0-18-generic problem that's causing my
> Ubuntu 12.04 system to not be able to see the root device on boot and
> thus dropping me to busybox instead, or what? If so, how do I fix this?
> I get the feeling that using the initrd.img-3.0.0-12-generic with the
> 3.0.0-12-generic kernel is causing my sound not to work.. and I'm
> thinking when I get a kernel update I'm going to be whacked back to not
> being able to boot... So does anyone have any suggestions? This is a new
> horizon for me. I love this stuff. And, I love all of you for the
> awesome things you do for this awesome OS.. Thank You! and Thanks for
> any help you can provide!
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