I made an edgy LiveCD and booted the problem machine with it - boots fine. It looks like the menu.lst that is installed on the system is correct. Although, I did make one mistake in typing out the UUID in the original bug report above. I changed the 5th to last character from a c to a 6.
Other things that may be wrong appreciated. The default grub choice (which is what I'm booting) from menu.lst: title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-10-686-smp root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-10-686-smp root=UUID=4db43095-7d5e-4829-95dd-25bb786c0664 ro quiet splash initrd /initrd.img-2.6.12-10-686-smp savedefault Relevant line in /etc/fstab: # /dev/hda3 -- converted during upgrade to edgy UUID=4db43095-7d5e-4829-95dd-25bb786c0664 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 "vol_id /dev/hda3" output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/boot/grub$ sudo vol_id /dev/hda3 ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem ID_FS_TYPE=ext3 ID_FS_VERSION=1.0 ID_FS_UUID=4db43095-7d5e-4829-95dd-25bb786c0664 ID_FS_LABEL= ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE= -- Kernel panic after "Initializing /dev" during startup after "/init: 76: Syntax error" https://launchpad.net/bugs/74009 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs