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10LTS doesn't recognise network socket 8LTS does

Asked by PeterNZ

I selected the option to upgrade from 8LTS to 10LTS. The green ticks went by fine until I came to the reboot. Grub defaulted to ASH reporting it could not find any network sockets. The result is a munted 10LTS installation all over my old 8LTS. When I run 10LTS from the CD Firefox times out all the time. It can find the ADSL router but getting outside the internal network is hopeless. Yet when I run 8LTS it works fine. (Hence my ability to edit this).
I am using a fairly bog standard ADSL router,connected by wired ethernet. This should not be hard people!
 I thought under 10LTS would
" a browser takes seconds, unlike other operating systems that leave you staring at the screen, waiting to get online."
well in fact its the bloody opposite. Canonical's credibility is about as low as it can get with me right now.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Boot to liveCD and reinstall grub.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2

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PeterNZ (peter-allmedia) said : 		#2

Why wreck something that's working? Grub works fine, the problem is the munted OS it loads because it was screwed up halfway through the upgrade. Nor does that doesn't that solve the problem that 10.04LTS doesn't let me connect to the net but 8.04LTS does.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

ok then boot to livecd and mount your root partition on the internal disk, you can then chroot to the disk and fix the OS there.

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