An Ubuntu 11.04 install story

Two days ago Ubuntu 11.04 was released. I didn’t want to upgrade my system that day, but this silly box announcing a new Ubuntu release when I logged into my system tempted me a lot and yes, I clicked on the upgrade button.

The process began, and obviously I wasn’t the only one upgrading because the download speed was very slow. I stopped it and I downloaded the install CD via Bittorrent instead. That was quickly finished. I made a live USB and rebooted my computer. I didn’t want to try Ubuntu live, so I clicked on the install Ubuntu button, and after answering a few questions the installation upgrade began.

When I went back my screen was black with a lot of system messages and it was freezed, which is of course very unpleasant when you’re installing/upgrading your system. I could reboot and this went fine. But when I came to GDM, my usual username wasn’t listed and after a few tries I had to admit that I couldn’t log in. I rebooted again the LiveUSB, and reinstalled Ubuntu. Then I could come into the system but I had no wireless. I rebooted again in Ubuntu live, in which I could access the Internet.

I looked for this issue of freezing installation and I found that I wasn’t the only one. But I found also this page, which was very useful. So I did this:

sudo mkdir /media/fix
sudo mount /dev/sda6 /media/fix
sudo chroot /media/fix su

Then I checked that everything was correctly downloaded, since the installer freezed:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade

apt-get was happy so I supposed that the system was okay.

I rebooted again and well, I could log in, but still no wireless available. Then I realised that my grub menu listed the same kernel as the previous release (2.6.35) instead of 2.6.38. I made a
sudo update-grub
and grub showed me the new kernel. I selected it, booted and now I have a nice Ubuntu 11.04 with the WiFi working 🙂

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