After upgrade to 8.04, no entry in Grub for new kernel

[Jored]

I have upgraded my Dell LS400 laptop from 7.10 to 8.04. Upgrade completed successfully.
However, there is no Grub entry for the new kernel and the system boots into the 7.10 kernel (2.6.22.14-generic).

When I type into terminal:

lsb_release -a

I get Ubuntu 8.04, Hardy.

When I type:

uname -r

I get 2.6.22.14-generic

However,when I type:

sudo update-grub

I get:

"Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ...done"

So apparently, the new kernel has been found, yet Grub fails to update.

Can anyone help me edit grub manually, or any other way for grub to "see" the 8.04 kernel and boot into it?

By the way, System Monitor shows Ubuntu 8.04 and everything has been upgraded (OpenOffice, Firefox, etc) and works with the 7.10 kernel (??). With a few problems (microphone does not work, fonts in system Monitor, Terminal, etc are virtually unreadable, etc).

[Pumalite]

Delete.

[Jored]

Wow, that's a really explicit and helpful response.

Anyway, searching countless other posts, I did solve the grub entry problem by reinstalling 2.6.24-19-generic kernel with Synaptic and choosing the option to replace grub entries with developers choice.

However, still no microphone (internal or external) and lousy unreadable fonts in System Monitor, Terminal, etc.

Everything else seems to work fine an system is faster thn with Gutsy.

[SkonesMickLoud]

You could have also written the entry to menu.lst for yourself.

All you really needed to do is copy/paste the entry for the 2.6.22* kernel into said menu.lst and update the locations of the new vmlinuz and initrd.

Also, there doesn't seem to be a way to delete one's post on here, so I'm sure Pumalite didn't mean it the way it came across...

[Licurgo]

Jored:
I suggest to back up and make a fresh new install
This could prevent headaches

[polmir]

Jored:
I suggest to back up and make a fresh new install
This could prevent headaches

What? This Linux is no Windows.


Jored
type in terminal

cat /boot/grub/menu.lst

and paste the output of the forum.

[Licurgo]

Polmir:

What? This Linux is no Windows.

I feel you don't understand
Back up the information, the settings of mozilla, and evolution and make a fresh new install.

[polmir]

...a fresh new install.

Why new installation?

We need information about installed in the system kernels.

dpkg -l | grep $(uname -r)

And the contents of the file

cat /boot/grub/menu.lst