There’s something rotten in the state of Ubuntu
On or slightly before April 2nd (which is after the beta for Feisty and almost 2 months after the feature freeze for Feisty), Ubuntu updated the SATA and IDE drivers in the kernel to the new experimental libata drivers. For users who had switched their fstab back to mounting by /dev from mounting UUID, this completely broke things, which was annoying, but OK. April 12th, the day of the scheduled Release Candidate, many people’s computers stopped booting because of libata breakage, and as of right now, over 2 days and 3 kernel builds later, some still are having boot issues. This late switch is unacceptable and should have been left until Gutsy Gibbon. If I were still on Edgy, I’d stay away from Feisty for as long as possible, as I predict future breakage of this magnitude.