Bug#598961: Reproduced: cannot boot after kernel upgrade

[Richard Kettlewell]

This problem happened again on the next kernel upgrade.  I did the 
following steps:
   1) turn on computer
   2) upgrade everything except kernel and grub
   3) reboot (this worked fine)
   4) upgrade just kernel
   5) reboot. This did not work.  As before the display showed
      'GRUB' after the BIOS and no more.

As before I used a livecd and a chroot to re-run 'grub-install --force' 
and the system then rebooted happily.

ttfn/rjk

richard at violeer:~$ really apt-get install linux-image-2.6.32-5-686
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
   linux-base
Suggested packages:
   linux-doc-2.6.32
The following packages will be upgraded:
   linux-base linux-image-2.6.32-5-686
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/27.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 1,307 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 87936 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace linux-base 2.6.32-24 (using 
.../linux-base_2.6.32-27_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement linux-base ...
Preparing to replace linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-24 (using 
.../linux-image-2.6.32-5-686_2.6.32-27_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 ...
Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d .
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools 2.6.32-5-686 
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub 2.6.32-5-686 
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up linux-base (2.6.32-27) ...
Setting up linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 (2.6.32-27) ...
Running depmod.
Running update-initramfs.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686
Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 2.6.32-5-686 
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/pm-utils 2.6.32-5-686 
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub 2.6.32-5-686 
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686
done
richard at violeer:~$ really reboot

Broadcast message from root at violeer (pts/1) (Mon Nov 15 21:03:40 2010):

The system is going down for reboot NOW!
richard at violeer:~$ Connection to violeer closed by remote host.
Connection to violeer closed.