Grub boot confusion

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Thu Aug 28 20:42:15 UTC 2008


Keith Clark wrote:
> On my system, Ubuntu seems to have been updating just fine, but it was 
> modifying the wrong menu.lst grub file, as my computer was booting 
> from another drive.
>
> I finally discovered the problem and changed the boot order in my 
> BIOS.  I was booting to kernal 2.6.24-16-generic.  Now I'm booting to 
> kernal 2.6.24-19-386.
>
> Many problems are happening now.  My video is not running correctly.  
> It used to be really fast and responsive with Compiz and now it just 
> crawls.  My sound card is no longer installed correctly and I'm sure 
> there is more that I've not found out yet.
>
> Any ways to correct these?
>
> Keith
>
    Well the problem is, with each kernel update you got some other 
updates that use the new kernel. I have no idea what happened to that 
software. You have a wierd system and the update software must be confused.

Karl


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