The upcoming release of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) is in its Alpha 2 stage at the moment. One outcome of having an alpha released installed on your machine is the massive amounts of daily updates – with a major kernel update every once in a while. Things were going pretty smooth with the Karmic Koala until it was on 2.6.30-9 kernel.
Just this morning, there were a bunch of updates listed in the update manager. Among the things that were in line for the upgrade was a brand new kernel, 2.6.30-10. The updating process itself went pretty well. Then when it was time to restart, I picked the newly updated kernel from the Grub expecting nothing unusual.
Booting options after updating to kernel 2.6.30-10
After selecting Kernel 2.6.30-10, all I got was a green screen and the computer refused to do anything past that point. The only alternative was to restart and boot with the 2.6.30-9 kernel which I am currently using to make this post.
Ubuntu Karmic Koala (Kernel 2.6.30-10): Green Screen Of Death
It not something one sees that often with Linux distros. I saw it today!
P.S.: The newer kernel 2.6.30-10 has been fixed. It boots and functions normally now.
Same thing happened to me. Is there a way to apply 2.6.30-10 from the terminal? (I am not tach savvy enough with Linux to figger that one out by myself.)
When Grub loads, don’t select kernel 2.6.30-10, select 2.6.30-9 (or earlier one if you have the option) instead. Once you have successfully booted with the older kernel you can fire up your Update Manager and apply the new updates. The updates fixed the problem for me. Now I can boot with the newer kernel just fine.