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   From: Hadron    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: Kernel update   
   Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 21:47:06 +0100   
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   Faolan  writes:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   heh. I had a similar disastrous situation with the lamentable nvidia   
   driver situation.   
      
   Had to switch to vesa via xorg.conf, then ran Milone's "envy" script   
   which took care of downloading necessary sources and nvidia packages in   
   order to compile & install latest driver with the 2.6.17-11 kernel. envy   
   takes are of shutting down gdm too for the installation.   
      
   http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html   
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