Ubuntu losing root filesystem on first boot

[Jeremy C. Reed]

> out no problem, and this time around I chose Ubuntu 6.06.  Same thing,
> everything seemed to be OK until I rebooted, and it fails attempting to
> mount the root file system, still trying to load on /dev/hde1.  It drops me
> into a shell eventually, where I checked the /dev folder, and found that
> niether hde nor hde1 exists. I tried creating the folder, still hung (altho
> i really didn't expect that to work).

Since you got a shell, use "dmesg" to tell you what your kernel detected.

I saw in other email that you got this solved though.