interpid installation does not install 2.6.27 kernel

[Eugene Savelov]

After installing 8.10 (interpid) beta (kernel 2.6.27-4), over a prevoius 8.04 installation by booting from cdrom image, without formatting the root fs, installer did not copy vmlinuz-2.6.27-4-generic kernel to /boot , and configured 2.6.24-19-generic kernel to boot.
But that failed on restart because it could not find any modules for it. (it erased /lib/modules)

I had to manually copy the kernel from cdrom to /boot, and edit the grub menu.lst file

this is x86_64 desktop version of interpid beta, used russian language during install

ubiquity version 1.10.3

[Mick K (mjkemsley)]

I have experienced a similar issue.

Installed from 8.10 beta AMD64 desktop cd. I selected a fresh root fs, but selected an existing ext2 fs as /boot without format. (This partition used for /boot in 8.04)

After install, grub was configured with 8.04 kernels (2.6.24-X) with 8.10 fs as root

vmlinuz-2.6.27-4-generic was missing from /boot

Files that were copied to /boot -
initrd.img-2.6.27-4-generic
abi-2.6.27-4-generic
config-2.6.27-4-generic
System.map-2.6.27-4-generic
vmcoreinfo-2.6.27-4-generic

[Eugene Savelov (savelov)]

Korax, can you attach your /var/log/installer/syslog? As mine is in russian, it is of no use to majority of developers

[Mick K (mjkemsley)]

Sorry, didn't know the syslog from install gets archived

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Why did you decide to reinstall without formatting the root partition? Thanks in advance.

[Mick K (mjkemsley)]

In my case, root was formatted as XFS.
I used a ext2 /boot partition (also used by 8.04) due to the root partition being past the maximum cylinders for boot

Thanks

[Eugene Savelov (savelov)]

In my case, I wanted to do a fresh install, but keeping /home untouched. I had /boot on the same partition