2.6.38 kernel not booting

Ben Tinner bentinner at yahoo.com.sg
Sun Jul 17 13:29:26 UTC 2011


On Saturday, 16 July 2011 1:32 PM, Jens Muller wrote:

>Hi,

>I have problems with the 2.6.38 kernel which was installed with Ubuntu 11.04.

>Only the 2.6.35 from before the release upgrade to 11.04 works.

>The
 problem with (two versions of) 2.6.38 is: After I choose it from the 
grub menu, there >is only a blue screen (not a bluescreen, but the same 
blue). Dunno why, or where it comes >from. I'd have thought the grub
>config including all the nice graphic config would be installed
>everytime I run update-grub.

>2.6.35 has a graphical display asking me for the password.

>My /boot/grub/grub.cfg is at http://paste.ubuntu.com/645514/.

>My /etc/default/grub is at http://paste.ubuntu.com/645517/


>Maybe
 the initrd of 2.6.38 is somehow broken - like, if it cannot handle LVM 
or RAID or >crypt, it of course won't work. But I have no idea how to 
debug this.

>Any hints?

>Jens

I had just found out that the kernel has a problem. File a bug to Ubuntu and alert the Linux Foundation about it.
 
Ben
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