Can't boot Lucid after upgrade from Karmic

[Tony Pursell]

On 27 May 2010 at 22:40, Goh Lip wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 27 May 2010 14:34:38 +0100
> "Tony Pursell" <ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On 27 May 2010 at 10:51, Goh Lip wrote:
> 
> > > On 05/27/2010 04:45 AM, Tony Pursell wrote:
> 
> > > Tony, are you using RAID?
> > No, but there were messages about raid in the 9.10 logs (I don't get 
> > any logs from the failed 10.04 boot)
> 
> Firstly, noticed you replied directly to my email without cc the ubuntu
> list. Do you wish to take this off-list and what are your reasons for
> it?  I prefer on-list response because I may give wrong instructions
> and others may correct me. But if there are good reasons for off-list
> communications, I am willing to consider.

Sorry, that was a mistake.  I always intend to reply on-list only.

> 
> Secondly, your system do appear 'funny' - can only boot to 
> 2.6.27-11-generic kernel recovery mode - gives the impression lucid was
> not really installed, or was installed wrongly. At this, I would
> recommend you do a reinstallation, or if not possible, a fresh install.

I'm only using 2.6.27-11-generic (my only remaining Karmic kernel) 
because none of the 3 Lucid kernels will boot.

> 
> But I sense you are willing to try to have a go at giving every shot at
> it and I would not mind working through with you on this. However, our
> willingness alone may not be sufficient and you must be prepared to
> throw in the towel at some point.

What I want to have a go it is finding out what is wrong so it can get 
fixed in Ubuntu.  If I just re-install we may just lose all the evidence of 
a nasty bug.

> 
> As a start, please list the output from the grub prompt
> grub> search -f /vmlinuz
> grub> search -f /vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic
> grub> search -f /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic
> 
> Where the above output gives some output, say, hd0,x,
> please list the output of 
> grub> ls (hd0,x)
> 

I will do this and come back to you. 

> 
> Fair warning..   ;)   If *both* the 2nd and 3rd query does not give any
> output, I will throw in the towel and ask you to reinstall.
> 
> Regards - Goh Lip
> 
> ps: if you have inadvertently missed out the ubuntu list, you may copy
> the whole message (yours and mine) and we can resume at the list.
> 

Tony