Can't boot Lucid after upgrade from Karmic

[Tony Pursell]

On 25 May 2010 at 20:46, NoOp wrote:

> 
> On 05/24/2010 09:57 AM, Tony Pursell wrote:
> > On 23 May 2010 at 17:50, NoOp wrote:
> > 
> >> 
> >> On 05/23/2010 06:35 AM, Tony Pursell wrote:
> >> ...
> >> > Most of the bugs that you mention do not result in a catastrophic 
> >> > failure to boot, that is why I don't think they are the whole story.  Also 
> >> > remember I can boot a live system from USB with no problem so I 
> >> > don't think there is anything basically wrong with the ATI graphics 
> >> > (even if they are not the worlds best).
> >> > 
> >> > I am becoming resigned to having to re-install, but this is not a good 
> >> > thing for an operating system that aspires to replace Windows. Users 
> >> > should be able to update to the latest LTS (at least) without this 
> >> > happening.  So for the sake of Ubuntu's future, I would like to get to 
> >> > the bottom of this.  I will hang on for a while, before I re-install, to 
> >> > preserve the evidence, in case someone wants to look at it further.
> >> 
> >> Not ignoring you... just have to think this one through a little closer.
> >> 
> > 
> > Thanks. I'll be patient.  
> > 
> > Don't forget I can gather information by booting from the 10.04 live 
> > USB and I can also do command line operations when booted with 
> > the old 9.10 kernel (use apt-get, for instance).  
> > 
> > Tony
> 
> Can you boot to 9.10 cli and see if perhaps all the packages are updated?
> 
> $ sudo apt-get update
> $ sudo apt-get upgrade

I have been doing these quite regularly to see if there are any new 
fixes that might help.

> $ sudo apt-get install -f
> $ sudo dpkg --configure -a

I have run both of these.  No output from either command

> 
> And then please provide the output of:
> $ ls /boot -la
> 
> Let us know the results. You may end up having to re-upgrading, but
> advise of the results of the above first.
> 

After this, I tried a reboot to Karmic and still no go.

The listing for /boot is:

total 63924
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root    4096 2010-05-08 18:12 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root    4096 2010-05-08 18:12 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  508385 2009-04-01 23:46 abi-2.6.27-11-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  629853 2010-03-24 11:31 abi-2.6.31-21-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  640617 2010-04-16 14:01 abi-2.6.32-21-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  640617 2010-04-28 19:20 abi-2.6.32-22-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   91358 2009-04-01 23:46 config-2.6.27-11-
generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  111349 2010-03-24 11:31 config-2.6.31-21-
generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  115847 2010-04-16 14:01 config-2.6.32-21-
generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  115847 2010-04-28 19:20 config-2.6.32-22-
generic
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root    4096 2010-05-14 23:39 grub
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 6985562 2007-04-21 14:57 initrd.img-2.6.17-11-
generic.bak
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 8350110 2009-10-31 22:33 initrd.img-2.6.27-11-
generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 8652925 2010-05-02 11:27 initrd.img-2.6.31-21-
generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 8976169 2010-05-02 11:44 initrd.img-2.6.32-21-
generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 8975101 2010-05-08 18:12 initrd.img-2.6.32-22-
generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  160280 2010-03-23 09:37 memtest86+.bin
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1031799 2009-04-01 23:46 System.map-2.6.27-
11-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1668296 2010-03-24 11:31 System.map-2.6.31-
21-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1687378 2010-04-16 14:01 System.map-2.6.32-
21-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1687378 2010-04-28 19:20 System.map-2.6.32-
22-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    1074 2009-04-01 23:48 vmcoreinfo-2.6.27-11-
generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    1196 2010-03-24 11:33 vmcoreinfo-2.6.31-21-
generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    1196 2010-04-16 14:03 vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-21-
generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    1196 2010-04-28 19:22 vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-22-
generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2249232 2009-04-01 23:46 vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-
generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3901472 2010-03-24 11:31 vmlinuz-2.6.31-21-
generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4029792 2010-04-16 14:01 vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-
generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4030048 2010-04-28 19:20 vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-
generic

(sorry about the line wrapping)

The 2.6.27-11-generic kernel is the only one that boots, but lacks 
mouse/keyboard in any graphical mode, hence I can only boot via 
recovery mode, switch to the tty1 console and log in to CLI.

Tony