[TriLUG] Updates installed, system won't boot now

[David Burton]

It wouldn't be a bad idea to do a bit of hardware testing on that machine,
too.
Your Live CD probably has a MemTest option for testing the RAM.
Drive Fitness Test (from Hitachi) will test the hard disk drive.
Dave

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt at freeshell.org>wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, Brian Blater wrote:
>
>  From the grub> prompt I've tried booting the system with the following
>>> commands:
>>>
>>
>> set root=(hd0,6) *I have the root partition at /dev/sda6
>> set prefix=(hd0,1)/boot/grub *I have a boot partition at /dev/sda1
>> linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro
>> I get error: file not found
>>
>
> Not in front of an ubuntu system ATM, so I can't check, but are you sure
> you have a vmlinuz file/symlink? Have you tried using the full name
> (vmlinuz-2.6.whatever-blah)?
>
>                        Alexey
>
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