Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: upstart
upstart is no longer capable of booting without initrd. it appears to
work at first, but as soon as the root file system reaches its maximum
mount count, upstart stops at "waiting for /dev/sda1".
to make things worse, after rebooting with init=/bin/bash, it is not easily
possible to manually fsck the root device because /dev/sda1 is missing (thanks
to udev). for those who are not accustomed to mknod and how to fix this problem:
mknod /dev/sda b 8 0
mknod /dev/sda1 b 8 1
mknod /dev/sda2 b 8 2
...
with every day I use lucid I am becoming more and more motivated to
replace upstart and udev with a very simple but reliable bash script and
static device nodes. there were very intelligent and considerate people
who invented sysvinit and deliberately decided not to exploit
parallelism in this process for reliability is much more important than
performance.
** Affects: upstart (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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upstart fails to boot without initrd
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/588624
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