Error: Invalid parameter failed loading after kernel upgrade

[niccolo johnson]

Hi, I am a happy user of the excellent rEFind but ran into the above problem after the latest kernel upgrade (used to be fine). Grub booted ok with the new kernel though.

I am a new linux user, any help/cue/hints will be much appreciated. Thanks you.

What I did

1) upgraded from "3.13.0-53" to "3.13.0-61 "

2) edited /boot/efi/EFI/refind/refind.conf

3) boot from refind

4) got the following error message:

Starting vmlinuz-3.13.0-61-generic.efi.signed
Using load options 'ro root=LABEL=h10-1-root initrd=/EFI/sxmod/initrd.img-3.13.0-61-generic'
Error: Invalid parameter while loading vmlinuz-3.13.0-61-generic.efi.signed

5) tried using

options "root=PARTUUID=fb13fab7-e7fe-48e6-a062-b65d0c3637eb initrd=/EFI/sxmod/initrd.img-3.13.0-61-generic"

6) still same error

7) tried boot with GRUB

8) kernel '3.13.0-61 ' booted ok with GRUB

refind version

refind 0.9.0-0ppa1

System info - boot up with old kernel via rEFInd

sx@sx-Lenovo-Flex-2-15:~$ uname -a Linux sx-Lenovo-Flex-2-15 3.13.0-53-generic #89-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 20 10:34:39 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux`

System info - boot with GRUB

sx@sx-Lenovo-Flex-2-15:~$ uname -a
Linux sx-Lenovo-Flex-2-15 3.13.0-61-generic #100-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 29 11:21:34 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux`

efi directory structure

sx@sx-Lenovo-Flex-2-15:~$ ll /boot/efi/EFI/
total 24K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Sep 27 2014 Boot
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Sep 27 2014 Microsoft
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K Jul 30 14:14 refind
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jul 30 14:14 sxmod
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 7 23:45 ubuntu`

kernel images in directory 'sxmod'

sx@sx-Lenovo-Flex-2-15:~$ lla /boot/efi/EFI/sxmod
total 150M
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27M May 30 15:46 initrd.img-3.13.0-53-generic
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27M Jul 30 14:07 initrd.img-3.13.0-61-generic
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9.3K Feb 19 09:26 os_umate.png
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11K Feb 19 09:26 os_umateclone.png
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 218 Feb 18 10:48 refind_linux.conf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.6M May 20 04:11 vmlinuz-3.13.0-53-generic
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.6M May 30 15:46 vmlinuz-3.13.0-53-generic.efi.signed
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.6M Jul 29 05:35 vmlinuz-3.13.0-61-generic
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.6M Jul 30 14:07 vmlinuz-3.13.0-61-generic.efi.signed`

Manual boot menuentry entries in /boot/efi/EFI/refind/refind.conf

menuentry "Ubuntu Master (on h10)" {
    volume SYSTEM_DRV
    icon EFI/sxmod/os_umate.png
    loader /EFI/sxmod/vmlinuz-3.13.0-61-generic.efi.signed
    initrd /EFI/sxmod/initrd.img-3.13.0-61-generic
    options "ro root=LABEL=h10-root"
    submenuentry "Ubuntu Master (on h10, last refind ok boot)"
    {
    loader /EFI/sxmod/vmlinuz-3.13.0-53-generic.efi.signed
    initrd /EFI/sxmod/initrd.img-3.13.0-53-generic
    options "ro root=LABEL=h10-root"
    }
    submenuentry "Ubuntu Master (on h10, Grub boot)"
    {
    volume SYSTEM_DRV
    icon /EFI/refind/icons/os_ubuntu.png
    loader /EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi
    }
}

refind_linux.conf

"Boot with standard options"        "ro root=LABEL=h10-root quiet splash "
"Boot to single-user mode"          "ro root=LABEL=h10-root quiet splash single"
"Boot with minimal options"         "ro root=LABEL=h10-root

[niccolo johnson]

done my palemoon seems to mess up the text formatting. my apology ... am trying to figure out why and will repost, sorry