I discovered that the kernel was missing after installing Ubuntu 9.10
from a USB drive. Here is what I did to complete the installation
successfully:
1) Make a bootable USB drive from ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso using USB
Startup Disk Creator.
2) Boot to USB live session.
3) Unmount the USB filesystem:
$ sudo umount -l -r -f /cdrom
4) Delete all partitions on the internal hard drive using GParted. (Just in
case these interfere somehow)
5) Install Ubuntu 9.10 to the entire internal hard drive. Do not reboot.
6) Verify that /media/internal-drive/boot/vmlinuz* does not exist.
7) Make sure there is a working internet connection.
8) Chroot into the new installation:
sudo mount -t proc proc /media/internal-drive/proc
sudo mount -t sysfs sysfs /media/internal-drive/sys
sudo mount -o bind /dev /media/internal-drive/dev
sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf /media/internal-drive/etc/
sudo chroot /media/internal-drive/
9) Reinstall linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic:
apt-get clean
apt-get update
apt-get install --reinstall linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic
10) Verify that /media/internal-drive/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic does exist.
11) Reboot into new system.
Curiously, the missing kernel problem did not occur when installing to
another computer earlier with the same USB drive. And I still have no
idea why this happened in the first place. How can I be sure that this
hasn't broken other packages as well?
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Missing kernel after 9.10 installation from extra partition
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/474196
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