Forest, if you still have this problem, try this: - boot from a LiveCD - mount the root partition, devfs, procfs and sysfs - chroot into your system - do an aptitude full-upgrade
That fixed it for me (here's the blog post I wrote about it: http://azitech.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/gave-up-waiting-for-root-device/) Let me know how it went Good luck -- gave up waiting for root device (temporary, intermittent) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/600728 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