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   From: Psychobudgie    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: Kernel update   
   Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:11:19 +0000   
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   Faolan wrote:   
   > I thought it was only M$ that could kill a OS by doing updates ;)   
   >    
   > Situation, system did the latest Kernel patches and now won't boot past    
   > the splash screen. I have verified the boot.lst file and the fstab to    
   > make sure the file system is pointing to the drive (HDA). Both of which    
   > are doing so correctly (confirmed with the backed up files).   
   >    
   > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to progress from here? At the    
   > moment the boot sequence fails at splash screen and dumps me into the    
   > InitRAMFS system. Tried to boot from old grub but that failed as well.    
   > When it boots from safe mode it seems to hang trying to find the root    
   > file system.   
   >    
   > Ubuntu 6.10.   
   >    
   > Thanks.   
      
   Are you by any chance using the binary nvidia drivers?   
      
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