Installing latest kernel packages on 12.04.4 via dpkg makes system unbootable.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I ran into this while taking a stock 12.04.4 system and manually installing the latest SRU kernel 3.11.0-18.
The system is in a test lab that does not allow any internet connection to test machines, thus I must manually install everything.
So, I did the following:
downloaded the linux-image, linux-headers packages from archive.ubuntu.com for 3.11.0-18 for 12.04.4 amd 64
installed them as follows:
dpkg -i linux*.deb
(there were three packages, linux-image, linux-headers and linux-headers*all)
THe packages successfully installed, but when I rebooted, I saw an error stating that the disk could no longer be found, and was dumped to a busybox shell (which didn't work).
I've attached a screen shot that shows what I saw.
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
This makes it impossible to certify the machines in this lab that have i350 NICs because I need to be able to install and boot that kernel to fix a bug in the igb driver in older kernels.