ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 51, Issue 185

[Ram Das]

Hi Leo,

To execute that command I need to have installed Ubuntu right?? I am installing Ubuntu for first time!!!!

Thanks
Ram

--- On Thu, 13/11/08, Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 51, Issue 185
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Thursday, 13 November, 2008, 9:41 PM
> --- On Thu, 11/13/08, Bill Taylor
> <th1bill at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> > From: Bill Taylor <th1bill at sbcglobal.net>
> > Subject: Re: ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 51, Issue 185
> > To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 8:55 AM
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> > 
> > I'm a compete noob, and even I know all he has to
> do
> > now is edit the
> > menu.lst file to add the new kernel to one of the boot
> > options. I had
> > the same thing happen to me when Hardy updated
> it's
> > kernel but didn't
> > update grub to point at the new one.
> > 
> > gksu gedit & will open your editor in
> administrative
> > mode so you can
> > open and edit the menu.lst file.
> > 
> > Later, Ray Parrish
> > - ---------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Ray, I tried that but I must not have typed the
> correct
> > syntax.  If I
> > knew exactly what form to type the new kernel into the
> > menu.lst I would
> > attempt that once more but I do not wish to kill the
> system
> > entirely.
> >
> Sorry if I've missed something as I've not followed
> this thread closely.  However, you should only have to do:
> 
> sudo update-grub to add any missing kernels that has been
> installed correctly on the version you are running. My
> output of the command includes all the kernels installed on
> Hardy as below:
> 
> lchata at ubuntu-hardy-64bit:~$ sudo update-grub
> [sudo] password for lchata:
> Updating /boot/grub/grub.cfg ...
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-21-generic
> Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-21-generic
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-20-generic
> Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-20-generic
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic
> Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic
> Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
> Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
> done
> 
> If you haven't yet run the above, please do and it
> should resolve your issuse. If you ran it before, it
> wouldn't hurt to run it again as it does no harm. If no
> joy with the above, you can still edit menu.lst to add the
> new kernel as it wont kill the entire system.  It may crash
> when you select the new kernel if it's not added
> correctly but all you would have to do is reboot into a
> kernel you know is working and recheck menu.lst for any
> errors you have made in the new kernel listing. Linux is
> more user friendly than that unless you do something totally
> foolish like rm -rf / that would delete the entire
> partition. Of course you wouldn't do that.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> 
> 
> 
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