cant boot into latest kernel

[RickKnight]

Re: cant boot into latest kernel

!@!!! NOW that simply can't be!! /dev/hda1 is the main partition that you have your system installed on. It's the same partition that is referenced by the 'working' system.

Qqmike hasn't yet posted to this thread (has he?). I think that there must be something going on in the GRUB boot loading that isn't quite right. What you are experiencing should not be happening.

Snowhog,

It can be happening. I'm having exactly the same problem. I'm not installing to a USB device, just a standard EIDE hard drive, and this was an upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy. Otherwise exactly the same symptoms. I've also changed from UUID to drive path (/dev/hdb5) and I get the same results as the original poster. I'm browsing this thread to hopefully find a solution. Also, I don't think the problem is due to GRUB, I think it's either with the new kernel or with initramfs.

Thanks,
Rick

[RickKnight]

Re: cant boot into latest kernel

Richard, did you ever get past this error with the original HDD? I'm having the same problem right down to my system not using the newer /dev/sd path, still on /dev/hd. Did you try the Bios settings?

Thanks,
Rick

[Qqmike]

Re: cant boot into latest kernel

Parenthetical note: RickKnight, If it is the initramfs, one standard repair for that is the following (and it's all I know about it):


Initrd Fixing
Suppose the broken partition is sda2. From the Live CD, chroot into the sda2 partition.
Issue the following command:
sudo update-initramfs -u -v
and let it run and put things together & right for your initrd.

Chroot
To chroot into sda2 from the Live Kubuntu CD at Konsole:
sudo mkdir /media/fixthings
sudo mount /dev/sda2 /media/fixthings
sudo chroot /media/fixthings
(Now you are “in” sda2 as root and can work from there as if you were actually booted into it.)

If the update-initramfs does not work, or hangs, you would try to repair initramfs-tools:
First, and doing a chroot into the broken partition, from Konsole, uninstall it, then re-install it:
sudo dpkg –configure -a
sudo apt-get –purge remove initramfs-tools
sudo apt-get install initramfs-tools
Then, try the update-initramfs again (as above).

[RickKnight]

Re: cant boot into latest kernel

Qqmike,

I'm not saying initramfs is broken, I just think it might be missing whatever kernel module is required for my on-board IDE controller. But then I think my CD/DVD drives are working. I'll have to check tonight. If my IDE CD/DVD drives are also not being recognised that would indicate that a driver is not available, correct?

Thanks,
Rick Knight