Upgraded to Hoary, latest kernel won't boot

Tommy Trussell tommy.trussell at gmail.com
Sat Apr 9 15:34:51 UTC 2005


On Apr 8, 2005 3:28 PM, azz <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 1.  Even if you have to keep using the Warty kernel, if you had no
> problems with it, it will still get security fixes for another year and
> a half.  So, that is a good option.

Yes, it boots, though not perfectly. This is my mother-in-law's PC,
and I was concerned it could fail again with the next update, if the
problem hasn't been corrected. In order to track any kernel security
upgrades, I would have to learn to carefully apt-pin the Warty kernel,
since I've upgraded everything else.

> 2.  Did you install the final release version of Hoary?  If not, just
> change the sources.list Warty settings to Hoary, update and do a
> dist-upgrade.  That should give you the released version of the new
> kernel.  If that still gives you problems, fiole a bug report and keep
> on booting with the Warty kernel.

This should be all the latest packages -- I did the Warty to Hoary
upgrade as recommended in the Ubuntu wiki. Since it's a computer going
to an inexperienced household, I would rather do a full reinstall
because I haven't been able to activate the automatic update
notification feature on an upgraded system. If I did a full reinstall,
however, I risk ending up with a machine that doesn't boot at all.

Thank you for the encouragement -- After all my searching I couldn't
find a similar reported problem, so I filed it as a bug report last
night:

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8813

> You can install grubconf from Universe to easily change the default
> kernel you boot.

This might be helpful -- I will give it a try. So far I've been a
"sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst" kinda guy -- especially since even
with Warty this machine requires a custom boot parameter that gets
blown away with each update.




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