Hardy startup progress bar missing after installing Intrepid Ibex

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Sun Jul 6 14:32:41 UTC 2008


David Vincent wrote:
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> arief at gmail wrote:
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>> Hi all.
>>
>>
>> Hardy is great.
>> There are still some hair-pulling problem, but that is for another
>> post and possibly some bug reports.
>>
>> What I'm going to ask here is another thing, after get up and running
>> with hardy, I also want to try Intrepid Ibex. So I installed it to a
>> last unused partition on my system.
>>
>> The configuration is like this:
>> - /dev/sda1 => Hardy
>> - /dev/sda2 => swap (shared with hardy and intrepid)
>> - /dev/sda3 => Intrepid
>>
>> Since I go with the usual and not expert install, as expected, Hardy's
>> grub is override by Intrepid. Not wanting this, since Hardy is my main
>> system, I reboot to hardy and reinstall hardy's grub, configure it
>> manually to be able to boot intrepid.
>>
>> What I notice though, after installing intrepid, I couldn't get ubuntu
>> progress bar displayed. The usplash splash-screen on initial boot is
>> still there, but then I just got text output from init scripts.
>>
>> I have try to reconfigure and reinstall usplash, update-initramfs,
>> even reinstall kernel with no luck.
>>
>> I also remember that when I'm installing intrepid, I resized the swap
>> partition,  this caused swap to be inactive in hardy. It was caused by
>> changed UUID for /dev/sda2 (due to resizing?). Fixing /etc/fstab and
>> updating the UUID with the latest one, swap is working back.
>>
>> But the progress bar is still missing.
>>
>> Any help or pointers would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>> All the best.
>> -arief
>>
>>     
>
> how about this bug?
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usplash/+bug/205990
>
> ...
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=746132
>
> Basically what you do is:
>
> 1. Make sure you have the initramfs-tools update
> 2. sudo blkid
> 3. Check that swap line UUID from /etc/fstab matches swap UUID from step
> 2, if not change fstab.
> 4. Check that the UUID in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume matches the
> swap UUID from step 2, if not change resume file.
> 5. sudo update-initramfs -u
> 6. Restart
>
>
> ...
>
> - -d
>
> 	All of this is much adu about nothing. All you should have done was on the intrepid menu.lst where you put a few lines that start the Ubuntu grub. It looks a bit like the ones that start Windows. Look on the Ubuntu menu.lst for the exact calls.
>   

Karl



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