[64studio-devel] 0.9.9 Problems

[Daniel James]

Hi Quentin,

> On boot (64Studioi386) states that the modprobe failed, and that the sda3
> (my root partition on this system) is not available.  It then just hang
> for 15min whereafter it goes into a shell

If it's sda3 rather than hda3 then I'm guessing it's a SATA disc and the 
problem is the driver for the SATA controller on the laptop's 
motherboard. Does modprobe say which module failed? Which module is 
Ubuntu loading to mount that disc? It's sata_nv probably, if it's an 
nVidia chipset.

Also, if your root partition cannot be mounted, have you checked that 
grub is actually finding the right partition? See for example the end of:

http://www.adras.com/Post-install-issues-with-SATA-hardware.t10446-72.html

Cheers!

Daniel