Comment 2 for bug 478198

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and help to improve Ubuntu.

It appears that the problem you're experiencing is because you're still running the old kernel from Ubuntu 9.04, despite having upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10.

There are several ways that you can wind up booting an old kernel after an upgrade. Bug #470490 describes one of the most common, and includes instructions on how to correct your menu.lst if this is the problem you're having.

Have you previously modified the grub menu.lst configuration on this system? Were you prompted on upgrade whether you wanted to keep your local modifications to menu.lst, or install the package maintainer's version?