Bug#548290: another failure to find root filesystem

[Christophe Rhodes <csr21@cantab.net>]

Hello,

Similar to other reporters, linux-image-2.6.30-2-686 fails to find its
root filesystem (specified by UUID in grub2's configuration file) on my
laptop at boot; linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 does not have this problem.

The grub menuentries are all of the form

menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (recovery mode)" {
        insmod ext2
        set root=(hd0,1)
        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 408abe9e-7410-46f8-bf91-faea6ec38fac
        linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-686 root=UUID=408abe9e-7410-46f8-bf91-faea6ec38fac ro single acpi_sleep=s3_bios
        initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-686
}

lshw output for the only disk on this system is:
  *-disk
       description: ATA Disk
       product: HTC426040G9AT00
       physical id: 0
       bus info: ide@0.0
       logical name: /dev/hda
       version: 00P4A0B4
       serial: EKRX50
       size: 37GiB (40GB)
       capacity: 37GiB (40GB)
       capabilities: ata dma lba iordy smart security pm apm partitioned partitioned:dos
       configuration: apm=off mode=udma5 signature=cccdcccd smart=on
     *-volume:0
          description: EXT3 volume
          vendor: Linux
          physical id: 1
          bus info: ide@0.0,1
          logical name: /dev/hda1
          logical name: /
          version: 1.0
          serial: 408abe9e-7410-46f8-bf91-faea6ec38fac
          size: 35GiB
          capacity: 35GiB
          capabilities: primary bootable journaled large_files ext3 ext2 initialized
          configuration: filesystem=ext3 label=/ modified=2009-10-25 07:13:33 mount.fstype=ext3 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered mounted=2009-10-25 07:12:49 state=mounted
     *-volume:1
          description: Extended partition
          physical id: 2
          bus info: ide@0.0,2
          logical name: /dev/hda2
          size: 1451MiB
          capacity: 1451MiB
          capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
        *-logicalvolume
             description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
             physical id: 5
             logical name: /dev/hda5
             capacity: 1451MiB
             capabilities: nofs

I'd be happy to investigate further if there's anything I can do to
help; please let me know.

Best,

Christophe