[ubuntu-uk] Cannot boot after upgrade to Lucid

[John Matthews]

On 03/05/10 21:13, Tony Pursell wrote:
> On 3 May 2010 at 20:25, Matthew Daubney wrote:
>
>    
>> On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 19:13 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote:
>>      
>>> On 3 May 2010 at 18:47, Matthew Daubney wrote:
>>>        
>>>> On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 18:34 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote:
>>>>          
>>>>> Hi all
>>>>>
>>>>> I have posted the following bug
>>>>>
>>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/573776
>>>>>
>>>>> but got no response yet so I wonder if anyone on the list can help
>>>>> me?
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems that the only way I can get at my partitions is by using my
>>>>> USB stick.  So I can pull of log files, etc and modify any config files, if
>>>>> needed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tony
>>>>>            
>>>> Hello,
>>>> That error is related to your graphics card. What gfx card and what RAM
>>>> do you have?
>>>>
>>>> Here's the error in the drivers code
>>>>
>>>> if (rdev->family == CHIP_RS400 || rdev->family == CHIP_RS480) {
>>>>                  /* FIXME: RS400&  RS480 seems to have issue with GART size
>>>>                   * if 4G of system memory (needs more testing) */
>>>>                  rdev->mc.gtt_size = 32 * 1024 * 1024;
>>>>                  DRM_ERROR("Forcing to 32M GART size (because of ASIC bug ?)\n");
>>>>          }
>>>>
>>>> Can you let us know what hardware your system has and we can look a bit further.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> -Matt Daubney
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Matt: Graphics is ATI Radeon Xpress 200 onboard which uses some
>>> of the system RAM.  The PC itself is an HP Pavilion t3510.uk desktop
>>> with an HPvs17x flatscreen monitor and 1GB Ram.
>>>
>>> John: The kernel is whatever kernel Lucid installs (I can confirm it, if
>>> you want but shutting XP&  rebooting takes an age)
>>>
>>> Matt: Note booting in Recovery mode and with old kernel also fails.
>>>
>>> Tony
>>>
>>>        
>> The other question is, what partitions do you keep on the software raid?
>> ureadahead doesn't like /var having it's own partition apparently.
>>
>>      
> I have *no* software raid that I know of!  Yes /var does have its own
> partition.
>
> I can boot off the USB stick with Lucid 10.04 LTS on it, but I did not
> install from it.  This was a distribution upgrade using Update Manager.
>
> The kernels shown by GRUB are
>
> 2.6.32.21
> 2.6.31.21
> 2.6.27.11
>
> I can't boot from the first two.  The last one boots to a log in prompt,
> then freezes, but gives me a console session on tty1.  It also boots in
> recovery mode.
>
> Tony
>
>
>
>    


When that happened to me on my netbook, I tried

sudo apt-get update,

and it got me to a log in screen. I then had to do a rescue, which 
actually worked. Dont know if that helps.

John

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