64 bit kernel won't mount /

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com>]

Greetings;

Amd Phenom, 8Gb of dram on an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe board.  So old USB3 
isn't.

Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS 32 bit server install here.  A recent experiment with a 
32 bit Wheezy (2.7) worked extremely well when I enabled it to install an 
amd64 kernel, fastest and smoothest this machine has ever worked.  
Unfortunately I destroyed it by installing a library firefox was 
complaining about the lack thereof, it pulled in about 20 other packages 
and destroyed what little KDE I had installed to be able to use kmail.

I have been reading up on man fstab, but it has not solved my problem of 
the boot waiting, sometimes for 30 seconds, for the drive to be mounted at 
/ to appear.  There is no disk activity during this wait period, and it 
does not always do it when booting a 32 bit PAE kernel.

But if I build an amd64 version of that kernel, it stops dead, no disk 
activity after announcing that the / device has not yet checked in.

But, after waiting a minute, I hit m to get what is marked as a root 
terminal, but which has no rights, I see that the directory contents of / 
are visible.

Fdisk complains that there are 3503 unallocated 512 byte sectors after 
partition 1 on the disk, but its been doing that for 3 or 4 years.  
Terrabyte disk so its not seriously effected unless it slows it somehow 
that I haven't noticed.

On wheezy, for as long as it worked, it worked a treat.

Suggested fix for the 64 bit boot stall? I am familiar with make xconfig.

Thanks all.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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