<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:56 PM, NoOp <<a href="mailto:glgxg@sbcglobal.net">glgxg@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 04/05/2010 07:30 PM, MirJafar Ali wrote: ... <div class="im">> Hello, > > Even this time also, after following ur instructions, I don't get Kernel > updated. Still uname -a and boot gives the old > kernel and machine hanging is becoming pathetic. I think I made a bad > judgement of upgrading ubuntu to 9.10. </div>No. At least now you are not getting the 18 packages witheld from before (and sorry about the 'sudo grub-update' vs 'sudo update-grub' mixup - glad you caught that. So perhaps it is time to try Goh's suggestion of reinstalling grub. He suggested: <div class="im"> sudo grub-install /dev/sda </div>Before you do that, can you please provide the output of: $ grub-install -v and $ sudo fdisk -l Thanks. -- <div><div></div><div class="h5">ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> Hi here is the output: csverma@blackhole:~/QuadMesh/src$ grub-install -v grub-install (GNU GRUB 0.97) csverma@blackhole:~/QuadMesh/src$ sudo fdisk -l [sudo] password for csverma: Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x69afd9f3 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 9037 72582028 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 13734 14593 6907950 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 9038 13733 37720620 5 Extended /dev/sda5 9038 13534 36122121 83 Linux /dev/sda6 13535 13733 1598436 82 Linux swap / Solaris Partition table entries are not in disk order I am wondering why Solaris is out there. Mir