Kernel panic after upgrade

[Mark Halegua]

On Wednesday 12 August 2009 10:48:35 am Derek Broughton wrote:
> Mark Halegua wrote:
> > And I tried to boot with the previous kernel.  It won't boot, probably
> > because xorg.conf was modified for 9.04 and the previous video driver was
> > changed to something generic.  It did inform me it didn't have a lglfx
> > version for 9.04.
> >
> > Mark
>
> Boot to your previous kernel in recovery mode.  You don't need X.  Run:
>
> # sudo update-initramfs -k CURRENT-KERNEL
>
> It can't hurt, and works for me.  This has happened to me 4 times so far.
> The problem is not that it can't find the root partition (or at least, not
> only - I can modify that in grub and get a slightly different error).  It
> doesn't find the filesystem drivers.  I'm betting your root FS is not
> ext2/3.
>
> Damn.  I see Nils has suggested essentially this, and hasn't even had to
> fix the problem himself!  Good call Nils.  I would suggest not using the
> "-k all" option, though, because you don't want to risk breaking the kernel
> you _have_ managed to boot from.
> --
> derek


Thanks to Nils and Derek.

I have fixed the system and it now boots properly.  The command "sudo update-
initramfs -k KERNEL"  (with the kernel file specified) didn't work.  Neither 
would it work with the -c

What did it was, after attempting an apt-get update, I was told I had to first 
to a "sudo dpkg --configure -a" which would reset the apt-get system.  Doing 
this actually went through and did everything, including creating the initrd 
file and updating grub.

Now I only have to get used to the new desktop.  I almost wish I still had KDE 
3.5.

Mark

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-users/attachments/20090812/d22057b6/attachment.html>