I should have added to 'what happened' - from the initramfs shell, I halted the machine - power off, wait, power on. - boot 2.6.31-13-generic - it booted fine.
I did not gather a lot more detail as I was looking at other issues when this cropped up. -- grub misconfigured after upgrade to linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/454418 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
