Ubuntu upgrade gone bad

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 17:15 +0000, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> ow the 
> computer won't boot. I don't remember the exact error, but something 
> to the effect that something's wrong with the kernel. 

Can you go to the Grub boot loader menu (you might have to press ESC
during boot after the BIOS is done; watch the top of the screen for the
info)? If so, can you choose your previous kernel to boot?