Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1633839] Re: No symbol table. Press any key to continue

2016-11-19 Thread David Oser
Thanks Yu Lou - in the end I did a fresh install. That was OK. David On 19 Nov 2016 02:00, "Yu Lou" <1633...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > I have a dual system of Ubuntu and Windows 7 and encountered the same > problem after in place upgrade from 16.04 to 16.10. I tried boot-repair > before but

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1633839] Re: No symbol table. Press any key to continue

2016-10-19 Thread David Oser
As other replies Joseph. The only thing I didn't try was an upstream kernel. But in the end I've just done a completely fresh install - so someone else will need to try the upstream kernel approach.. But I'm intrigued that two people found their solution via a new grub install, while I didn't

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1633839] Re: No symbol table. Press any key to continue

2016-10-19 Thread David Oser
I have tried 'boot-repair' in normal and advanced mode and have tried reinstalling grub via sudo grub-install /dev/sda1 (then sda2, and finally simply sda). All of these approaches have reported 'success' in bash/terminal etc - but none have actually solved my problem. Actually I'm wondering

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1633839] Re: No symbol table. Press any key to continue

2016-10-18 Thread David Oser
Thanks Alex I had tried 'boot-repair' to no avail, although success was reported. But I tried your solution twice by using dev/sda1 (the current efi FAT32 boot partition) and /dev/sda2 ( the main ext4 partition). Neither solved the problem although there were no error messages only 'successful'

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1633839] Re: No symbol table. Press any key to continue

2016-10-18 Thread David Oser
Thanks Michka I had tried the boot-repair option, to no avail. But this time I made sure I had the latest version (I do) by completely removing boot-repair and reinstalling, including repository, and tried 'advanced' option. 'Successful' but didn't solve the problem. Then I tried default version