no soundcards found 9.10 upgrade on Dell studio xps

[NoOp]

On 01/07/2010 12:19 PM, Ron Burns wrote:
...
> 
> I ran these updates and all seemed to go Ok. I rebooted as asked and 
> updated kernels do not show up in the boot up menu.  So I was still in 
> 2.6.28-16-generic. Next I ran
> 
> sudo update-grub
> 
> This found several kernels including 2.6.31-17 and the other update I 
> did a week or so ago.  I figured I was home free and rebooted.  BUT new 
> kernels are still in in menu list at boot up.
> 
> Here is boot directory
> 
> 5 /boot >ls
> abi-2.6.28-16-generic	      memtest86+.bin
> abi-2.6.31-16-generic	      System.map-2.6.28-16-generic
> abi-2.6.31-17-generic	      System.map-2.6.31-16-generic
> config-2.6.28-16-generic      System.map-2.6.31-17-generic
> config-2.6.31-16-generic      vmcoreinfo-2.6.28-16-generic
> config-2.6.31-17-generic      vmcoreinfo-2.6.31-16-generic
> grub/			      vmcoreinfo-2.6.31-17-generic
> initrd.img-2.6.28-16-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.28-16-generic
> initrd.img-2.6.31-16-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.31-16-generic
> initrd.img-2.6.31-17-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.31-17-generic
> 
> 
> and part of the uncommented part /boot/grub/menu.lst is
> 
> title		Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-17-generic
> uuid		683594d9-8c16-4a27-93e0-fd9a95966991
> kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-17-generic 
> root=UUID=683594d9-8c16-4a27-93e0-fd9a95966991 ro quiet splash
> initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-17-generic
> 
> title		Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-17-generic (recovery mode)
> uuid		683594d9-8c16-4a27-93e0-fd9a95966991
> kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-17-generic 
> root=UUID=683594d9-8c16-4a27-93e0-fd9a95966991 ro  single
> initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-17-generic
> 
> title		Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-16-generic
> uuid	.... <rest not shown>
> 
> The updates seem to be there but none of this shows up during bootup. 
> Hopefully, if I get booted up into the latest kernel the sound issue 
> will be solved.
> 
> Ron
> 

Perhaps upgrading to grub2 might be the best solution:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
In Step 6:
6. If the GRUB 2 menus function properly the user can upgrade to GRUB 2
at any time by running:
I select sda and sdb.

Refs for standard grub & additional grub2:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2