Ubuntu
ubiquity package

  1. Bug #287747
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 287747

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João Pinto (joaopinto) wrote : Re: Installing into an existing / partition will result in a broken kernel

I have booted from the livecd and chrooted into the broken system, the kernel package is listed as installed but grub is unable to find it:
root@ubuntu:/# sudo update-grub
sudo: unable to resolve host ubuntu
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
findfs: Unable to resolve 'UUID=4f99a04d-379f-43fd-86c6-a1ba3b9cb8e2'
Cannot determine root device. Assuming /dev/hda1
This error is probably caused by an invalid /etc/fstab
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-21-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

root@ubuntu:/# dpkg -l | grep -i linux-image
ii linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic 2.6.27-7.14 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.27 on x86
ii linux-image-generic 2.6.27.7.11 Generic Linux kernel image

Reinstalling linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic will get the proper entry added into the grub menu.