breezy upgrade, Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-10-686 can't start X

[David Hart]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 04:26:01PM +0800, rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:
> I did a dist upgrade to breezy. Everything went well. However, when I
> rebooted, I ended up at the command line. X wouldn't start, it complained
> that it couldn't load nvidia?
> 
> So I rebooted and selected Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-10-386 from the grub menu
> and it worked.
> 
> Does anyone know why the 686 kernel would not work but the 386 would? From
> the error message it seems to be an nvidia "thing."

Sounds like you've not installed the required 686 kernel modules.  Go
through synaptic (search on the name 'linux') and install the 686
versions of whatever 386 versions you have installed currently.

-- 
David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>