Comment 78 for bug 477104

I've been having this problem for months...MONTHS!! I either install the update (2.6.31-16), reboot and get the kernel panic issue or actually use the (2.6.31-16) update, install and configure my applications, get in a few reboots that actually took me back to my desktop until that unlucky time it doesn't work. I thought it was the .iso or the dvd I used (even though when I checked cd for defects it passed and for the .iso, I downloaded it with a usb creating tool like LinuxLive USB Creator, which verifies the .iso file. I also thought it had something to do with the hdd order because the main hdd wasn't on sata 0 but on sata 1. So before the 3rd or 4th installation of Ubuntu 9.10, I swapped the hdds to the correct order...still had the issue.

What I've done to make this stable (for the moment) is to load 14 (which ALWAYS works) using the steps mentioned in the beginning of this forum, completely remove all the kernels (2.6.31-15/16-generic), update the system (which doesn't even include the uninstalled kernels), reboot, installed from scratch the 2.6.31-16 headers, headers-generic and the linux-image for that kernel, did not hit restart now and did it using the menu and here I am now, no grub2 command line, no kernel panic, smooth sailing...