Can't boot Lucid after upgrade from Karmic

[Tony Pursell]

On 23 May 2010 at 17:50, NoOp wrote:

> 
> On 05/23/2010 06:35 AM, Tony Pursell wrote:
> ...
> > Most of the bugs that you mention do not result in a catastrophic 
> > failure to boot, that is why I don't think they are the whole story.  Also 
> > remember I can boot a live system from USB with no problem so I 
> > don't think there is anything basically wrong with the ATI graphics 
> > (even if they are not the worlds best).
> > 
> > I am becoming resigned to having to re-install, but this is not a good 
> > thing for an operating system that aspires to replace Windows. Users 
> > should be able to update to the latest LTS (at least) without this 
> > happening.  So for the sake of Ubuntu's future, I would like to get to 
> > the bottom of this.  I will hang on for a while, before I re-install, to 
> > preserve the evidence, in case someone wants to look at it further.
> 
> Not ignoring you... just have to think this one through a little closer.
> 

Thanks. I'll be patient.  

Don't forget I can gather information by booting from the 10.04 live 
USB and I can also do command line operations when booted with 
the old 9.10 kernel (use apt-get, for instance).  

Tony