Upgrade gone BAD 6.04LTS to 8.10

[lhcs01]

This message was posted last night, but I got no replys. I am posting again with more information, I hope it helps - my Laptop is dead in the water as it is.

I was upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 last night and had to take my daughter to a friends house. While I was gone my dog must have stepped on my power strip and turned it off, when I returned I repowered the strip and all my laptop gives me is a kernel panic. This is the message:

[ 0.844126] kernel panic not syncing; VFS; Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0)

If I press the Esc key at the GRUB prompt I get a listing of kernel choices, I'm guessing? I have tried then all and none will boot the laptop. This is what it looks like:

Ubunto 8.10 kernel 2.6.27-11 Generic
Ubunto 8.10 kernel 2.6.27-11 Generic (Recovery Mode)
Ubunto 8.10 kernel 2.6.24-23 Generic
Ubunto 8.10 kernel 2.6.24-23 Generic (Recovery Mode)
Ubunto 8.10 kernel 2.6.24-22 Generic
Ubunto 8.10 kernel 2.6.24-22 Generic (Recovery Mode)
Ubunto 8.10 kernel 2.6.24-16 Generic
Ubunto 8.10 kernel 2.6.24-16 Generic (Recovery Mode)

I don't want to make it worse or louse my data. What do I do to fix this? Thank you for any help.

[Pumalite]

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

[lhcs01]

I'm not sure how that's intended to help, but thanks for your time and reply.

[Crafty Kisses]

Can you boot into the recovery mode?