[ILUG] Booting Dapper after install

[Sonic]

Stephen Shirley wrote:

> That sounds like there might be some issue with either ide chipset, or
> the driver for it. The fact that it works on reboot is most likely
> because the chipset is in a slightly different state than when you
> poweron.

hmmm.... I'm worried about this as I'll be wanting the machine to 
automatically get updates and reboot weekly. If it doesn't only 
successfully boots sometimes then,... well........ that's bad. I didn't 
have this problem with Debian so thought Ubuntu would react the same. Do 
you know how I can check whether it's the driver or the chipset?

>> Also, why wouldn't the system recognise that the second partition
>> was to be mounted as '/' (as was configured in the partitioner?
>
>
> I'm not quite sure what you're referring to here. Is this related to
> the errors above?

It's related to the fact that I had to set GRUB to use 'root (hd0,1)' 
because it was trying to mount the swap partition, (the initial 
problem). What I was trying to ask was why didn't the system recognise 
that the first partition was the swap and know I mounted the second 
partition as root? Just wondering as it seems like a pretty basic thing 
to me.

Cheers,

Sonic

>
>> Cheers for your help so far, it's been very much appreciated.
>
>
> You're welcome.
>
> Steve