moving from 7.10 to 8.04

[Neil Cherry]

Frank Pessers wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> My upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04 also failed.
> 
> At the moment my computer boots and ends in the busybox prompt.
> 
> I got an error message with:
> "check root bootarg cat /proc/cmdline
> /dev/hda1 does not exists"
> 
> With bklid I checked the UUID and changed it in menu.lst en fstab. That
> didn't work.
> With de live CD I tried to access my home dir to make a backup, but I
> haven't got permission. So that didn't work.
> In the beginning I couldn't login at the new kernel 2.6.24 but still could
> with kernel 2.6.22. At a forum I read to login with the old kernel and
> install initramfs but that didn't work and made it worse I can't even login
> with the old kernel.
> 
> At this moment I don't know anything else to do. Can somebody help?
> 
> Gr Frank

I don't know if this will help but ...

This sounds a little like the boot problem I had. I added the
initrd line (it was missing) to the grub entry to boot up then
I added the initrd line to the grub menu.lst and corrected the
problem.

At the grub boot menu hit e (for edit), then move the cursor down
2 lines then hit O (the letter, oh) the I think it C for the command
line, then enter this line:

initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic

I added this line at boot under the kernel line and it allowed me
to boot. I then edited the /boot/grub/menu.lst file with the same
line. I think you might also want to do the:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

This may finish the upgrade process.



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