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Karmic Koala doesn't actually add the kernel to menu.lst

I had sever issues this morning after last night’s upgrade from Ubuntu Jaunty to Koala. Xorg was constantly at 98%, sound was broken, and the whole system was completely unresponsive.

Looking in /boot/grub/menu.lst I noticed the upgrade hadn’t actually added the new kernel at all. So I copied to config for the previous kernel and updated it to the new 2.6.31-14 kernel and on reboot we have sound and Xorg is now playing nicely at about 2% CPU. Panic over.

title   Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-14-generic
root    (hd0,0)
kernel    /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=a3c5e83c-f5f2-4704-8bd9-530ecf71f9e5 ro quiet splash acpi_osi="Linux"
initrd    /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
quiet

title   Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
root    (hd0,0)
kernel    /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=a3c5e83c-f5f2-4704-8bd9-530ecf71f9e5 ro quiet splash acpi_osi="Linux"
initrd    /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
quiet
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