<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><head><title></title><meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><style type="text/css">p { margin:0px; padding:0px; }</style></head><body style='background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);background-image:none;background-repeat:repeat;background-position:0% 0%;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:5px;padding-right:5px;'><p style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2">After running the update manager on my Wubi / Ubuntu 9.10, running on an ASUS notebook (Z53H) grub failed to find the proper kernel.</font><span></span></p><p id="__paragraph__1268825166000" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></p><p id="__paragraph__1268825166000" style="font-family:Arial;">Following this piece of documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Command%20Line%20&%20Rescue%20Mode<span></span></p><p id="__paragraph__1268825261000" style="font-family:Arial;">and some trial and error, I finally managed to boot in Linux again, using:<span></span></p><p id="__paragraph__1268825331000" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></p><p id="__paragraph__1268825166000" style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2"><span>linux /boot/vmlinuz.-2.6.31-14-generic root=/dev/sda5 loop=/ubuntu/disks/root.disk ro<br />initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic<br />boot<br /></span></font></p><p id="__paragraph__1268825166000" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></p><p id="__paragraph__1268825166000" style="font-family:Arial;">These are the old versions, as compared to:<span></span></p><p id="__paragraph__1268825705000" style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2"><span>initrd.img-2.6.31-20-generic</span></font><span></span></p><p id="__paragraph__1268825739000" style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2"><span>vmlinuz.-2.6.31-20-generic</span></font><span></span></p><p id="__paragraph__1268825868000" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /><font size="2"><span></span></font></p><p id="__paragraph__1268825740000" style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2"><span>These new versions result in a Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,5)</span></font></p><p id="__paragraph__1268825740000" style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2"><span><br /></span></font></p><p id="__paragraph__1268825166000" style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2"><span>I hoped to get around this manual labour by:</span></font><span></span></p><p id="__paragraph__1268825371000" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /><font size="2"><span></span></font></p><p id="__paragraph__1268825371000" style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2"><span>sudo bash<br />update-grub<br />sync<br /></span></font></p><p id="__paragraph__1268825371000" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /><font size="2"><span></span></font></p><p id="__paragraph__1268825371000" style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2"><span>But unfortunately the trouble remains.</span></font><span></span></p><p id="__paragraph__1268825471000" style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2"><span>Any advice would be appreciated :)<br /></span></font></p></body></html>