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Ubuntu 9.04 Kernel Panic Problem

Posted by Pramod on May 23, 2009

Great, I finally got my Ubuntu 9.04 up and running.

Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop

Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop

I am an Ubuntu user and I make sure that I always have the latest version installed on my computer.

However luck was not by my side during the latest release of Ubuntu – 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

After having installed Ubuntu while starting the new system the computer froze with Caps Lock and Scroll Lock LEDs blinking. I was really disappointed… I felt like crippled since i perform most of my productive tasks on Ubuntu… :(

I made a lot of researches in order to solve the problem, tried removing and reinstalling it, tried installing the nVidia drivers still nothing worked. Then and angel smiled at me… :)

I came across this forum which gave me my life saving answer…

So here is the explanation about the Kernel panic:

The default kernel installed on Ubuntu 9.04 is the 2.6.28-11 version which for some unknown reason was not compatible with my hardware configuration… (well that’s an assumption since it was working fine on other computers according to the other Ubuntu users)

I then read the forum post and chose the Optimal way (Part C with reference to the forum post) to repair the kernel panic problem.

The solution was to install the latest version of Kernel released for 9.04 but it seems it is not yet available on the repositories (Version 2.6.29-3)

Since my gnome desktop was not reliable i had to log on using recovery mode and chose the netroot option.

I then downloaded the three packages for i386 system:
$ wget -c http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.29.3/linux-headers-2.6.29-02062903-generic_2.6.29-02062903_i386.deb

$ wget -c http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.29.3/linux-headers-2.6.29-02062903_2.6.29-02062903_all.deb

$ wget -c http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.29.3/linux-image-2.6.29-02062903-generic_2.6.29-02062903_i386.deb

I then installed the downloaded packages using dpkg:
$ sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-2.6.29-02062903-generic_2.6.29-02062903_i386.deb linux-headers-2.6.29-02062903_2.6.29-02062903_all.deb linux-image-2.6.29-02062903-generic_2.6.29-02062903_i386.deb

After installation I restarted the computer on the new Kernel and it now works really great… :)

I am currently publishing this post from my Ubuntu 9.04… :D

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