Re: ubuntu amd story: what a difference a version upgrade makes

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel shellworld net>]

Ouch!  If you can use the livecd as a rescue disk and chroot into the hard 
drive and run aptitude again, you might want to try aptitude dist-upgrade 
and allow aptitude to make what fixes it will for your system.  I've been 
very lucky with aptitude and have never had that happen.  Also before you 
reboot, examine /boot/grub/menu.lst and see what grub thinks are and are 
not boot alternatives for you.  The default may be wrong and the system 
may be moving too fast for you to catch it on the way in.  This is why all 
linux istributions should check floppy drives for a ks.cfg file or 
whatever their preferred favorite install or startup script is and be 
prepared to write error logs to that same floppy all be it in a 
subdirectory.  This is something best not be required to specify on the 
boot line.  I still haven't figured out the syntax if ks.cfg is in 
/dev/fd0/ks.cfg so ubuntu can find it and run it.