Can't boot Lucid after upgrade from Karmic

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Tony Pursell
<ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi All
> Since I upgraded my desktop from Karmic to Lucid I cannot boot into Ubuntu.
> I have been trying all sorts of things without any success.  I have a bug
> [1] that has not received any attention. I now know that it boots only to a
> point where no log files have been written.  You can see from my photo of
> the console screen that there is a sort of error message at the point it
> gives up.  This is the subject of another bug [2] but I don't think it is
> the primary cause as I know you can still boot after this report is
> produced.
> What I can do is boot into Lucid from a USB stick, so there can't be a
> fundamental problem with my desktop PC.  I can also boot into my remaining
> Karmic kernel using the recovery option and get myself logged into a
> console. So I can tweak config files, if required.  But with this kernel I
> can't run anything graphical (either through the normal boot or by running
> startx) because mouse and keyboard don't work.
> One thing I have explored a lot is the possibility that it could be due to
> Kernel Mode Setting (which is the norm in Lucid), but disabling that in the
> boot parameters just results in my monitor complaining about the resolution
> settings and going to sleep.  So if it does boot, I can't see it!  Anyway,
> the fact that I can boot from the USB sort of rules KMS out as the cause.
> So what is different about my desktop PC's Ubuntu installation that might
> set it aside from other installations that have been successfully upgraded
> (including my Acer Aspire Revo).  Two things come to mind.  First, it is a
> fully partitioned installation with separate root, usr, tmp, var and home
> partitions. Secondly, it has Xubuntu installed alongside the standard
> Ubuntu. This has the effect that it starts booting with the Xubuntu splash
> screen (it did the same after my Karmic upgrade, although it ran Gnome after
> login).
> Can anyone think of why I cant boot Lucid?  I would be grateful of any
> suggestions.
> My PC is a HP Pavilion t3510.uk with 1GB ram, onboard ATI Radeon
> Xpress 200 graphics and a HP vs17x flat screen monitor.  Ubuntu dual boots
> with XP.
> Tony
>
> 1] https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/573776
> 2] https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/562843

Is this not a repost?

My suggestion would be:

[1] Do a clean install, alongside if necessary. See if that works. If
it does, just bring across your /home directory.

[2] Meanwhile, revert the main install to 9.10 so you can at least use it.


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