This really sounds like some problem related to the construction of the initrd. But it would be good to have some more information. One problem is that it is that I cannot really see how the exact setup is. I would suspect sda contains /boot (the partition table looks suspicious there, too), sd[bcd] probably make up the RAID? First thing to try is to boot the new kernel but from the grub menu remove "quiet slpash" and replace it with "debug". Then when dropping into busybox check wether the dmraid-45 module is loaded, whether there is a dmraid-activate and whether it maybe is possible to manually progress by calling that and then vgchange -ay and should that bring up the root vg, exit the busybox shell.
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Stefan Bader (stefan-bader-canonical) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/948291 Title: New 12.04 beta Kernel doesn't support booting from dmraid To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/948291/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs