9.04 > 9.1 upgrade gone bad

[enginemusic]

Situation:
Happy 9.04 user decides to do 'net upgrade to 9.1.
2 year old Dell Inspiron 530 dual booting XP.

All proceeds normally until first bootup. Selecting Kubuntu from grub brings the usual splash screen, with moving blue bar, then black screen with blinking cursor. Hang.

Alt-F1 brings up a screen with some kinit lines, the last of which says "No resume image, doing normal boot" but it's hung.

Alt-F8 brings up a screen with a dozen or so lines of "Modem-manager: loaded plugin (name of modem chipset maker)".
Doing a three-finger salute at this point brings up "modem-manager caught signal 15 - system shutting down" (or similar - didn't write it all down). I should point out that there is no modem on this machine.

I can boot from a 9.1 ISO that I downloaded, and can see all my old files.

I saw a thread where it was suggested one renames the /.kde folder, but the GUI under the live CD doesn't give me that option. I tried Konsole but couldn't figure out how to navigate to that partition.

As always, any help would be greatly appreciated!

Matt

[enginemusic]

Re: 9.04 > 9.1 upgrade gone bad

Still haven't managed to figure this out. Looking like I'll try to copy /home off the drive and reinstall from zero. I was hoping I wouldn't have to do that as I had the system set up just right (but still thought it a good idea to upgrade - go figure).

Is there anything I should copy over in addition to contents of the /home directory?

Thanks
Matt

[enginemusic]

Re: 9.04 > 9.1 upgrade gone bad

Still unsolved. Getting frustrated now! Can supply screencaps if that'll help.

[enginemusic]

Re: 9.04 > 9.1 upgrade gone bad

Solved! Apparently the upgrade failed to properly inform grub of its intentions. I booted into PuppyLinux, edited /boot/grub/menu.lst so that it pointed to the correct kernel, and I was away laughing.

No more XP! Well, at least until I want to scan or do some CAD....

Hope this helps someone.

Matt