Ubuntu 8.10 on DELL PowerEdge SC440 cannot boot

[karotu]

Hi All,

Having trouble trying to install Ubuntu 8.10 on this DELL PowerEdge.

Hard drive gets recognised ok during installation. After doing the install and reboot, it fails to boot giving the following errors..

Gave up waiting for device. Common problems:
- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
- Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
- Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
- Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/xxxxxx-xxx-xxxx-xxx... does not exist. Dropping to shell!

and then .. BusyBox terminal

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I've had a look around for solutions and noticed that I seem to have a valid setup?

I will post a copy of /etc/fstab, output of fdisk -l and /boot/grub/menu.lst

fdisk -l
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30394 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x345698d9

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 29157 234203571 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 29158 30394 9936202+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 29158 30394 9936171 82 Linux swap / Solaris

/etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=44621a46-4f07-45f5-a1ee-7703447b5588 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=5442f663-e451-4163-9bed-a532b19e1747 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

/boot/grub/menu.lst
default 0
timeout 3
hiddenmenu
title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic
uuid 44621a46-4f07-45f5-a1ee-7703447b5588
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=44621a46-4f07-45f5-a1ee-7703447b5588 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic (recovery mode)
uuid 44621a46-4f07-45f5-a1ee-7703447b5588
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=44621a46-4f07-45f5-a1ee-7703447b5588 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic

title Ubuntu 8.10, memtest86+
uuid 44621a46-4f07-45f5-a1ee-7703447b5588
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST






And if lucky.. /var/log/dmesg..

.. no luck yet after this update.. would be interesting to know to grab this from BusyBox..

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Rgds,

Karotu

[falko]

We had the same problem with a PowerEdge server. Install Ubuntu 8.10 - that did the trick for us.

[karotu]

Thanks Falko but this installation was done on Ubuntu 8.10. Any other other solutions based on outputs provided?

Gonna try out with Ubuntu 8.04.. or debian sarge/etch..

Rgds