I installed a new verison of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx the other day on a brand new formatted hard drive. ?Installation went smoothly as you’d expect, but when I rebooted the server I was stuck on GRUB menu (my worst nightmare). ?The server just wouldn’t load the operating system and typing ‘boot’ in GRUB gave me a?No Loded Kernel?error.
I tried re-installing, re-formating, various GRUB commands and nothing worked. ?Thankfully, I found a solution on a lengthy?GRUB2 documentation page. ?In summary, I had to tell GRUB to boot from the most recent kernel and this is the way to do it:
set root=(hdX,Y)
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sdXY ro
initrd /initrd.img
boot
Remember to specify correct X,Y values. For example, GRUB counts the first hard drive as 0, the first partition as 1. If your Ubuntu system is on sda1, enter set root=(hd0,1). You can list your partitions in GRUB2 using “ls” command.
Marko