Have a grub problem I think
Andrew Farris
flyindragon1 at aol.com
Sat Aug 8 09:24:32 UTC 2009
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 21:47 -0400, Douglas Pollard wrote:
> My computer is a dual boot machine XP and Ubuntu9.04 on two drives. I
> had EMC2 running in Ubunt 8.04 and it uses a different kernal that
> does not work well doing video I'm told. I switched to 9.04 with a live
> dvd so that I might install Cinelerra. Of course this meant
> repartitioning the Linux drive I think something has gone wrong with
> grub. When the window comes up to pick an operating system I can not
> move the highlight up and down the list using the up and down
> arrows. Also when Ubuntu is highlighted and counting down to a
> start, the enter key will not start Ubuntu . I keeps on counting and
> then starts on it's own. My machine is 64 bit dual processor but I
> installed a 32 bit ubuntu 9.04 by mistake but I plan to reinstall a 64
> bit version. Might that fix my boot problem?
I know it's a stupid question but...
Is your keyboard working right? This speaks to me as all the symptoms
of an unplugged/malfunctioning computer.
sorry I can't be more helpful...
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Andrew
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