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I've just installed 14.04.2, and after selecting Ubuntu in grub I get dumped to an initramfs shell. The error reads gave up waiting on root device.

The device it's trying to mount by UUID, hosting the root file-system, is the right one. It's hosted in the first partition of an SSD drive. This setup worked fine with my previous installation.

However, now the disk is not detected. The output of blkid from this shell is empty. The drive should be in /dev/sdb, but the file doesn't exist. /dev/sda (my other drive) isn't listed either.

What's going on?

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  • Are you using disk encryption?
    – Mitch
    Feb 22, 2015 at 17:59
  • No, no encryption
    – salezica
    Feb 22, 2015 at 18:48

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"add rootdelay=90 to the kernel stanza for your current kernel"

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IntrepidReleaseNotes#Boot%20failures%20on%20systems%20with%20Intel%20D945%20motherboards

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  • I'm already waiting around 20 seconds. What would I be waiting to for?
    – salezica
    Feb 22, 2015 at 19:23
  • According to this, it's because the SSD modules aren't yet loaded: udevadm trigger Feb 23, 2015 at 9:16

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