ASUS U24a can't boot without live disk

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Published on 2012-10-19T20:05:33Z Indexed on 2012/10/20 23:20 UTC
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I recently picked up a new ASUS U24a while travelling in asia. I've managed to go through hell with the UEFI setup, and finally now have a working GRUB.

However, I can't manage to get past the "Loading initial ramdisk".

If I boot the live CD-USB (only in BIOS legacy mode), I get a wonderful, working Ubuntu.

I finally managed to get UEFI installed on the hard-drive (no option for legacy BIOS boot, or I'd be there in a flash!), and can boot in UEFI mode into GRUB2.

But... I can't manage to get past the "loading initial ramdisk". It appears that the disk drivers are failing (there is no disk activity after this point).

Ideas? pastebin from the boot-repair is at: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1290011/

best, -tony

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