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Hi Jeremy,
I might need a bit of hand-holding to get the kernel installed since the issue is with a boot-CD environment that's been moved onto a USB drive.
I'm thinking of chrooting into it from another system and using normal apt as per instructions above, then just overwriting the ubuntu kernel with a copy of the upstream one (since as far as I know there's no GRUB menu for picking kernels when I boot from the USB).
Would that, dirty hack as it may be, work well enough? Would I need to overwrite the initrd too?
Note: I have to finish doing backups (using photorec over 1TB array is a *slow* process), troubleshoot the drive that died, rebuild+reinstall, and get the machine back to its owner by Sunday, and I'm travelling today and tomorrow -- so the window of time for doing experiments is extremely limited. What sort of other information should I grab? (e.g. I could try and tar up /sys, /etc, /var/log, etc... there's not much privileged info on this machine so I can be verbose, but I want to make sure I get the useful stuff.)