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I just loaded ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop. Toshiba it loaded fine. So I ran update on the system and it updated to teh 9.20 kernel (dont remember act numbers)
But now it wont reboot.
I get udevadm trigger is not permitted while udev is inconfigured
udev settle is not permitted while udev is unconfigured
svgalib: Cannot open /dev/mem
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
-Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
- Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
- Check root= (did the system wait long enought for device?)
- Missing modules (cat /proc modules; ls /dev)
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/e1768deb-95e0-44bd-96b0-b725c73d42af does nto exist. Dropping to a shell
Busy box v.1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.1.13.3-1ubuntu7) built in shell (ash)
Enter help for a list of built-in commands
(initranfs)
edit:
Kernel 2.6.31-20-generic.
It had
kernel 2.6.31-14-generic
I was able to boot back into the old kernel.. so whats happening? why wont the upgraded kernel work?
This sounds kinda like when I was changing my partition around, I had to do a gnome-update so that it found my drives again. Can't remember the command, I'll go look through where I posted my problem and see if I can't find the command.
By no means am I sure this is your problem though. Just what I think. Sorry I can't be of more help.
Distribution: Ubuntu 11.4,DD-WRT micro plus ssh,lfs-6.6,Fedora 15,Fedora 16
Posts: 3,233
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ive read somewhere that sometimes ubuntu will prompt the user to reboot before it is finished configuring the packages, the initramfs being one of them
this is happened to me before and here is how i fixed it
try picking maintenance mode from an older kernel in the grub menu and if you get in, chose root shell with networking
if that works run apt-get update
then apt-get upgrade, it might complain and give you a command to run, follow whatever directions you are given
after that run apt-get update/upgrade/dist-upgrade until it says 0 packages to upgrade/install then reboot and see if that fixes it
the short story is you have to force it to finish the update
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