ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 51, Issue 185

[NoOp]

On 11/13/2008 06:55 AM, Bill Taylor wrote:
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> I'm a compete noob, and even I know all he has to do now is edit the
> menu.lst file to add the new kernel to one of the boot options. I had
> the same thing happen to me when Hardy updated it's kernel but didn't
> update grub to point at the new one.
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> gksu gedit & will open your editor in administrative mode so you can
> open and edit the menu.lst file.
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> Later, Ray Parrish
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> Ray, I tried that but I must not have typed the correct syntax.  If I
> knew exactly what form to type the new kernel into the menu.lst I would
> attempt that once more but I do not wish to kill the system entirely.

This should work. If booting to 8.10 fails, you still will be able to
boot to 8.04:

title		Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic
root		(hd0,5)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic
root=UUID=d0357aa7-0f56-456b-8ce9-2b6fe6d8e429 ro quiet splash
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
quiet

title		Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic (recovery mode)
root		(hd0,5)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic
root=UUID=d0357aa7-0f56-456b-8ce9-2b6fe6d8e429 ro single
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic

title		Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic
root		(hd0,5)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic
root=UUID=d0357aa7-0f56-456b-8ce9-2b6fe6d8e429 ro quiet splash
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
quiet

title		Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic (recovery mode)
root		(hd0,5)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic
root=UUID=d0357aa7-0f56-456b-8ce9-2b6fe6d8e429 ro single
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic