Thanks for all your debugging work Anand, from the information you collected I believe that Johan's hunch was right and your bug was that mountall was "locking up" waiting for your root filesystem and never continuing once it appeared
This bug was fixed recently, so hopefully your problems should not be happening on current Lucid ** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- upstart fails to start system into multiuser mode https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/506727 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