Can't boot Lucid after upgrade from Karmic

[Tony Pursell]

On 22 May 2010 at 17:23, Liam Proven wrote:

> 
> 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.

/snip

> Is this not a repost?

Not really. Original post was to the ubuntu-uk list.  Tony Travis 
suggested I also try this list as well.


> 
> 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.
> 

I was thinking this might be the only way out.

I need some help to do both these. Can you explain what is involved?

Also I have to say that it is not good that what should be a 
straightforward upgrade ends up like this.  I have done every upgrade 
since Warty and although there were some problems on the way in 
the early days, nothing was a catastrophic as this.  If Ubuntu is to 
make it into the mainstream and compete with Windows and Mac, 
reinstalling is not an option. That is why I would like to find out what 
went wrong here.

Tony 

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