[hoary] kernel panic after update (was: Update killed my pc

[Philippe Landau]

Baza wrote:
 > I've just ran update on my Hoary box and it won't boot.
 > Kernal panic, unable to sync io ?? Help
it did not kill your hardware then yet :-)
try to boot with the other kernel:
 > When you see the GRUB Loading message,
 > press ESC to get to the grub menu. Here, you will see
 > several lines with kernel descriptions in them:
 > select the one that does not say '''recovery''' using the arrow keys.
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions

kind regards     philippe