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...


-- 
Andrew
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