Comment 33 for bug 358654

Just discovered this issue with 32 bit 10.04 LTS (upgraded from 8.04 LTS in Aug) (20100908). Boot stopped exactly as described in bug description. System normally runs for weeks at a time without reboot, and several upgrades/changes/new programs were applied before restarting--unfortunately not well recorded or defined. Therefore, I don't have good info on what may have caused it.

To fix the problem, followed Chandra's instructions exactly. Booted from Live 10.04 CD and opened a terminal window. May be useful to note that update-initramfs took a relatively long time to complete on my system (probably due to many older kernels still around). Restarting system after following the instructions exactly resulted in a good boot from default (top) kernel.

Thank You!