To be honest, it sounds like you have a more basic problem (disk space, disk
failing, bad memory, hardware conflicts, 3rd party software conflicts,
etc). Switching distros may or may not help. Even if it does, it could
re-occur later. Tons of other folks had the kernel update as well and I've
not heard of any such problems.
Obviously, you need to fix or install something, but I would suggest booting
a live CD or USB stick to do some checking first.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Trent Shipley <
trent_shipley@yahoo.com>wrote:
> I've been running Kubuntu on my desktop for a while now. Since the upgrade
> to 9.04 it has worked really well. Today the update program said the kernel
> had to be updated for security reasons, so I updated. Now the @#$% computer
> won't finish booting. This has happened before -- frequently. Until now I
> have been lucky and some old kernel known to GRUB would boot. Not this
> time. I have a perfectly good /home directory that I cant get to. When
> this has happened before I've tried burning an Ubuntu install DVD. That
> won't work. The install DVD naturally has the latest kernel so it won't
> boot my Dell desktop either.
>
> I am annoyed with Kubuntu. I used SuSE before Ubuntu. Who wants to
> recommend a good desktop distro for someone who thinks WIMP interfaces are a
> great advance over the command line? I prefer KDE to Gnome, but it's not a
> big deal either way.
>
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