SOLUTION (myself) - Turn UDMA off, in my computers BIOS settings. (Dell D8200 + Seagate 200GB PATA)
The question was, why this system, and not my other. If you're having this problem, here's what fixed it, for me. If not Grub (2) and not the kernel, then what's left? THE BIOS! Once I started to painstakingly test things, in the BIOS; that might affect GRUB booting, I finally just turned UDMA off; just to be sure and viola! It booted the new kernel; for the first time. Now, I think why this happens, is GRUB will take the UDMA settings from the BIOS, and if it's wrong, no booty. By turning UDMA off (which might be trouble for other duel booted OS systems, I run just Ubuntu now.) or actual setting it to the WRONG UDMA mode (I read), forces GRUB to call the CORRECT UDMA mode; from the actual drive! *** (Perhaps this kernel build failed to do something different, with UDMA; because the others worked!) *** hdparm -i /dev/sda1 ...(Yours might not be sda1) reports UDMA 5, as active. Confirming the correct (faster) UDMA drive setting; even though it's off, in my BIOS. -- package linux-image-2.6.32-24-generic 2.6.32-24.39 failed to install/upgrade with grub2 error "Invalid magic number" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/613967 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
