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Not booting with latest kernel image in 9.10

Asked by Rob Acton

I am a noob user who previously installed 9.04 as a dual boot with Vista. I recently upgraded to 9.10. Karmic runs fine with kernel image 2.6.31 -14 Generic. On boot I got the initial menu allowing a choice between ubuntu and windows. If I selected Ubuntu I got another menu with options for -14 Generic, -14 Generic Recovery mode and Vista. I would select -14 and had no problems. (I have not been sure why there are two menus to go through, but thats not really my problem.)

After having problems with my Huaweii E220 modem, I read online that these problems were solved with the latest kernel image (2.6.31 -15). I used update manager to get and install this. Now on boot, I get the initial menu. If I select Ubuntu I now get a menu with more options, including -15 and -15 Recovery mode, as well as the above options. If I select -15 the boot process begins again and goes back to the first menu. The only one that works is -14. I really need to get -15 working because I cant use my modem without it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Rob

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wojox (wojox) said : 		#1

Try booting into 14 and running

sudo update-grub

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Rob Acton (robacton) said : 		#2

I tried it. In the terminal there was some activity and then I was prompted to create a menu.lst file, which I did. However this had no effect and a selection of the 2.6.31 -15 kernel still causes the boot process to start from scratch again. From what I have picked up I shouldn't even need menu.lst because 9.10 uses Grub 2, which does not use that file.

Rob

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wojox (wojox) said : 		#3

Well because you upgraded you didn't get Grub2, but you can install it now from here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Upgrading%20to%20GRUB%202

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Rob Acton (robacton) said : 		#4

Sorry wojox, I was somewhat misleading in my first post. I had installed 9.10 using Wubi. What I was getting after installing seemed to be some kind of clash between grub and the windows bootloader. I could not select the latest kernel in the grub menu without it looping back to the windows bootloader again. I was so frustrated I uninstalled 9.10 and burned a .iso. I used this for a fresh install of 9.10. This seems to work much better. The windows bootloader is ignored and I get straight into grub. I can not select either of the two installed kernels. Unfortunately, even with the latest kernel my Hauweii E220 still doesn't work, but thats a distinct issue. The problem as posted seems to have been resolved.