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Should I upgrade my kernel?

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http://askubuntu.com – I've recently run into an hd0 out of disk error and was not able to boot Ubuntu. I have tried all the recommended fixes I've found on-line but none were successful. So I had no choice but to reinstall Ubuntu Precise Pangolin LTS 12.04 on my machine. Based on previous experience, every time I do an update or upgrade my kernel, I ended up reinstalling Ubuntu because I'd either get a hd0 out of disk error or grub rescue error or my partitions would be messed up. So my question is, should I update or upgrade kernels? The default kernel on a fresh Precise install is 3.2.0-23-generic-pae. Upon ins (HowTos)

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I run dist-upgrade and I ended up with this error:

Error!

I have a laptop on which I had Win 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 installed. The hdd has two partitions (one primary and one extended). Grub wasn't loaing initially so I ran the boot disk repair tool which seemed to sort it out. However, I mistakenly removed python (long story) from the Ubuntu OS and this obviously messed up Ubuntu a lot.

[SOLVED] Two Grubs- Confusing 19 weeks 4 days ago

I have both Precise and Quantal installed on separate partitions on same HDD.

While installing Quantal, in my forgetfulness I let it install Grub. No issues so far. Machine works fine.

However, whenever there is Grub version upgrade on either versions of Ubuntu or if I run update-grub in either the Grub gets replaced by the version where the upgrade or update happened.

Let me be more clear.

There are so many combinations of problems concerning this aspect of the upgrade to 12.04.1 LTS that I thought I had best itemise this one also.

As was expected, after installing the upgrade (online), the first restart, instead of presenting the option to boot to Ubuntu or to Windows, it resulted in

"error : the symbol 'grub'xputs' not found grub rescue> "

Neither 'grub-xput

):P I have made a startup disk on an 8 GB usb drive of Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2.

I have Precise Pangolin already installed and I would like to use the USB Startup Disk of Quantum Quetzal to upgrade Precise Pangolin. Is this practical?

Problem PXE booting 35 weeks 4 days ago

In relation to: dist-upgrade of diskless ubuntu

I have upgraded my diskless image to 12.04. I've updated the the default file in my tftpboot server, but whenever i boot the server, it comes with the error message "Could not find kernel image: precise/vmlinuz

I did try to cp the files into the /var/lib/tftboot/precise/ folder, and got it booting, but would really like for the symlinks to work.

Hi all,

In Ubuntu 12.04, after performing an upgrade that included a kernel update, I no longer have any sound. The sound worked fine before the upgrade.

Where did you read about multiple error due to the openssl update? You problem was doing a hard reset which caused data loss. This is why you ended up with some empty files. Boot the live system and reinstall all the packages from your recent update using pacstrap.

Pierre https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=1760

2013-02-17T00:50:28Z

Hello,

What is the easiest way to revert back to an older kernel version?

If I do a fresh install, what's the easiest path to update to a specific kernel version?

I have two machines and need both to be in perfect sync version both are 11.10 based.