HELP! The Juanty Jackalope has got me!

[KPolulak]

Ok, here's the deal...

I've just upgraded from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 and now I can't boot into GUI. I am prompted to login at a text-based screen and then I am brought to the command prompt but I think I may know why.

During the upgrade process, I was asked what I want to do with the menu.lst file. I chose to keep the current one because I liked the background I had for the GRUB bootloader. I think this was my mistake because now when my PC is at the bootloader screen, the option to boot into Linux still says Linux kernel 2.6.27 instead of the new version 2.6.28 included with Ubuntu 9.04.

How can I fix this?

Now, this is only what I think the problem may be. I will post the message I get when I login ASAP but I do remember it saying something about a non-existent directory.

HELP!

[saivin]

You are able to login right? Once you login do the following:

ls /boot

It will list all the kernels and initrds. Write down the latest for 9.04. (Mine says 2.6.28-11-generic). Next

sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

Give password of your account, edit the menu.lst in nano then Ctrl+O to save and Ctrl+X to quit. Reboot your system.

But, is that the only problem?

[devils casper]

Is machine booting up at all? Which Graphics Card do you have? You have to re-install driver if you have Nvidia or ATI Card.
You can add an entry of new kernel easily. Execute this

ls /boot
uname -a

Post output here.

[KPolulak]

I've tried to list the contents of the /boot directory but there isn't anything what-so-ever inside the directory for some reason. Odd...

Here is the message I receive after logging in:

No directory, logging in with HOME=/
-bash: cannot create temp file for here document: Read-only file system

Then I am dumped at the console.

[devils casper]

Have you tried to run fsck command on / file system?

Boot up from LiveCD and post the output of sudo fdisk -l command here.

sudo fdisk -l

[KPolulak]

Alright, here are the results when running "sudo fdisk -l" from the LiveCD:

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xccb5ccb5

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        6527    52428096    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            6528       13054    52428127+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3           13055       52217   314576797+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4           52218       60802    68952064    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5           52218       60802    68951040    7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0000b98d

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1       46995   377487306    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2           46996       49485    20000925   83  Linux
/dev/sdb3           49486       49546      489982+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb4           49547       52185    21197767+   5  Extended
/dev/sdb5           49547       52036    20000893+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb6           52037       52185     1196811   82  Linux swap / Solaris

[Gossamer]

Dispite seeing that; it's still hard to figure out what partition your booting into Linux from.

3 linux paritions and one swap... Do you remember what partition your installed it on?

[KPolulak]

Well, considering when I initially installed Ubuntu, I formatted the / partition first, so it is probably /dev/sdb2.

At the GRUB bootloader, I'm able to edit where I boot to. Couldn't I just edit it through trial and error using a different partition each time?

Well, even if I could, for the "kernel" row it says "linux-2.6.28-11-generic" and then something like UID with a ton of characters following it.

Ugh...what a mess...

[memdump]

log into single mode and then > /var/log/syslog this eill clean the syslog to see resent messages if you cant understand and you are confused of all messages then reboot again in single or you could fron single type grub you will see grub shell type : find /boot/stage1 you have to see the right partition if this is the right then root (sd/hd) somethink if donsent complain type setup (sd/hd) somethink.It will be good to post the last 5-10 rows of your syslog if problem persist .You can use cfdisk to view yous pratition table dont change anythink there . If this is grub
Or try update-grub