Saturday, August 11, 2018

11.04 - kernel update failed using apt-get dist-upgrade

I have ubuntu 11.04 on my Dell Inspiron


I did an upgrade using following commands


apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade

Now on restarting the system, the latest kernel version does not boot up, leaving me with blinking caps light. It seems like system just hangs up.


Though previous kernel is still bootable (thank god !!)


What might be the problem and how can I solve it.


EDIT : Output of df and cat /etc/fstab


nikhil@dell:~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 106802240 10149900 91227088 11% /
none 1973500 736 1972764 1% /dev
none 1981208 252 1980956 1% /dev/shm
none 1981208 96 1981112 1% /var/run
none 1981208 0 1981208 0% /var/lock
nikhil@dell:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
#
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=b6f842c2-bbc6-41e0-bb4e-88125ba0b2d1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=97b9c281-e852-41a7-8f3d-e511915c4013 none swap sw 0 0

EDIT : Even using


sudo update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.38-11-generic
sudo update-grub

Has not helped.

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