Like so many have pointed out, Linux is pretty crap really. I’ve been writing code for processors for 35 years, and still have to have to write noddy bits of code to fix stupid problems that shouldn’t be there. Nothing has changed. We used to accept it then as being in the forefront of technology, but it’s not acceptable now.

I have a IBM Thinkpad (Lenovo), the thing is that I recived a system update from the synaptic or Linux Mint updater AUTOMATICALY it occured when I attempted an installation of something and it required a updated package. Exactly I installed a tor server and It requested that I start installing many updates, in the sources.list apparently for that particular update set I had a upgraded version (Helena–ie. the ubuntu Karmic set) opposed to the old jaunty (Glorea) set.

well long story short , I ended up uninstalling some dpkg deb pacs and reinstalled their jaunty counterparts, unfortunately in this process something broke, I would like to best think that in the update process something went haywire with the way the mint linux kinit is called at boot.

It says the exact same error message as above aforementioned. except that it wont boot at all it gives a kernel pannic, and error and I don’t know if that drops me to a unreadable abit usable system with no display of just stops and hangs like others in the forum suggested.

I believe on startup I read and wrote down the UUID that was called by the kinit and found (It is the wrong UUID for the Linux boot main partition) my linux boot partiton is sda6 the one in the kinit call is sda5!! I checked it with a reinstall of grub using the chroot environment from live DVD,

Well to fix it I have so far set up a chroot environment using the Linux mint 64 Live CD and then chrooted in and cleaned up all the packages, and I just checked it again same error.

So thats a good check that the system needs some update in the init file.

i will attempt to try the first solution above however, as the sd5 is the swap and if I change the UUID I am expecting a different error next time. HHA wish me luck.

~jay

I am a diffrent problem. I have Ubuntu 8.10 kernel 2.6.27-11-generic.

I reboot my machine, it goes to GRUB and then it just hangs. All I see is the mouse going in round circle but no login page or any other pages.

I have tried everything in my power but can not figure it out. any help?

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Thanks, the same here. I keep a good record in my “RAM” of the posts on your blog, you know