Updates to 12.10 give boot failure
Hullo, I've been running 12.10 very successfully on my Asus Netbook for about 6 weeks. (OK - there was a system error "Sorry Ubuntu has experienced an internal error etc" on startup -but I was able to inhibit this). Yesterday, I (foolishly) accepted the package update - which ran & terminated normally. However, now, I can't boot!
On default boot (Linux 3.5.0-17-generic), we go into the (traditional) plain purple screen - but stay there ! On recovery mode, I get:
[ 1.001512] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS unable to mount root fs on unknown_block (0.0 [ 1.001572] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.5.0-17-generic 28-Ubuntu [ 1.001619] Call Trace: [ 1.001666] [] panic +0x81/0x17b [ 1.001666] [] mount_block_root +0x1aa/0r23d [ 1.001763 [] ? sys_mknod +0x2d/0x30 [ 1.001807] [] mount_root +0x5a/0x64 [ 1.001852] [] prepare_namespace +0+15e/0x192 [ 1.001901] [<114da05>] ? sys_access+
(this was typed - there may be errors)
When I try the Linux 3.5.0_15_generic from the Grub advanced options, I get to log in and it shows the Linux environment. But I have no cursor control at all & it's stuck
I have had this sort of problem before on previous Ubuntu versions, following an upgrade (both when the upgrade worked & when it failed) eventually had to re-install. Is there a simple way out?
thanks RGeek
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