Genoeg is genoeg

For all those Ubuntu 8.04 users who recently left behind their perfectly working 7.10 Ubuntu version and are now amazed by the vast amounts of hardware that ain’t working (like in my case, the sound card, ACPI hanging the kernel at boot (need to add acpi=off), shutting the machine down hangs, etc etc):

First of all, you never remove your old Ubuntu until your new works perfect, for obvious reasons (you are using Ubuntu, chances are pretty high that stuff doesn’t work after an upgrade). You should learn to do this if you didn’t (and I know this is bullshit for the average user, I guess this means something about how ‘ready’ Ubuntu is for that same average user).

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
cp -a /mnt/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/ /lib/modules/
cp /mnt/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic /boot
cp /mnt/boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic /boot
umount /mnt

Now edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and at the bottom of the file or under these lines:

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items
# below from the Debian ones.
title Other operating systems:
root

add these lines:

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer
# for an existing linux installation on /dev/sda1.
title  Ubuntu 7.10 for 8.04, kernel 2.6.22-14-olbuntu
root   (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=<copy this from above> ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
savedefault
boot

4 thoughts on “Genoeg is genoeg”

  1. Hi,

    Does this mean that the problem is actually linux 2.6.24 ? Note that your menu.lst kernel and initrd lines use 24-14, i guess you mean 22-14.

    Regards,
    Étienne.

  2. Right, 22-14 was the kernel I used.

    And indeed, it seems to be in the kernel (the ACPI and the soundcard problems that I have).

    I have a Intel model soundcard (Sony VGN-N21E laptop)

    ps. I’ll fix the kernel-version strings

  3. Same for me. I don’t know why I had to install Ubuntu 8.04 when I had a perfectly working 7.10.
    Since then, my Vaio refuses to do standby, I had problems with network-manager and keyring-manager,…

    Next time I’ll be more patient….I promise

  4. It seems the 2.6.24 and later kernels – not just in Ubuntu, but generally – are rather flaky. Makes me somewhat at a loss as to where I should turn.

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