Hi Rolf, I guessed that my problems may have come from poor handling of the standard (update-manager -d) upgrade to Karmic from Jaunty, rather than a fresh install, so I decided to re-install Karmic 2 days ago from the nightly Alternate build, using the CLI 'Expert Install' option, (as other others failed, as did installing from Live/Desktop; all methods using a USB key built with UNetBootin).
Anyway, the reinstall was to the same partition (Ext4 this time), while maintaining XP on the first partition and it all went smoothly, as far as recognising the root partition goes. I guess this ticket can be closed now, as I no longer have that problem, so cannot troubleshoot it further. I also did an upgrade from Jaunty to Alpha2 on another laptop a few weeks ago, which had a similar dual-boot, partitioned build and that also had no problems, so this may have been a one-off bug. (BTW, With the fresh install, I am now seeing some bugs that others have reported, which I did not get earlier by following the standard upgrade route.) Cheers Alistair -- [karmic] fails to find root due to missing symbolic link file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/377405 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
