Boot failure after update

[Paul Howarth]

Chris Birchenhall wrote:
> Hi guys. I have successfully loaded Core 3 onto two machines. All went 
> very smoothly until I updated on my Sony desktop. After the first update 
> (kernel and kernel-utils) the system hung during boot up. Fearful I had 
> done something silly I did a clean rebuild. Again went smoothly until I 
> updated; same problem, system  hung during boot up. Any clues why I am 
> having this problem? Chris

Updating a kernel will, by default, leave the original kernel in place 
so that you can still boot using it in the event of a problem with the 
new kernel. You have to press some key during the boot-up process (I 
forget which one, but you are prompted to press it to enter the grub 
menu IIRC), at which point you should get a menu of the two kernels to 
boot from. Just select the older one with the up/down arrow keys and 
press enter to boot it.

So did the update break both kernels or just the new one?

Paul.