Additional info: I was able to successfully install and boot the current mainline deb packages using dpkg
So the 3.11.0-18 packages fail on this system and the mainline packages from the kernel team work just fine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1292265 Title: Installing latest kernel packages on 12.04.4 via dpkg makes system unbootable. Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I ran into this while taking a stock 12.04.4 system and manually installing the latest SRU kernel 3.11.0-18. The system is in a test lab that does not allow any internet connection to test machines, thus I must manually install everything. So, I did the following: downloaded the linux-image, linux-headers packages from archive.ubuntu.com for 3.11.0-18 for 12.04.4 amd 64 installed them as follows: dpkg -i linux*.deb (there were three packages, linux-image, linux-headers and linux- headers*all) THe packages successfully installed, but when I rebooted, I saw an error stating that the disk could no longer be found, and was dumped to a busybox shell (which didn't work). I've attached a screen shot that shows what I saw. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1292265/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
