Ubuntu 9.10 Hangs Frequently

MirJafar Ali mirjafarali at gmail.com
Tue Apr 6 03:29:14 UTC 2010


On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:56 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 04/05/2010 07:30 PM, MirJafar Ali wrote:
> ...
> > Hello,
> >
> > Even this time also, after following ur instructions, I don't get Kernel
> > updated. Still uname -a and boot gives the old
> > kernel and machine hanging is becoming pathetic. I think I made a bad
> > judgement of upgrading ubuntu to 9.10.
>
> No. At least now you are not getting the 18 packages witheld from before
> (and sorry about the 'sudo grub-update' vs 'sudo update-grub' mixup -
> glad you caught that.
>
> So perhaps it is time to try Goh's suggestion of reinstalling grub. He
> suggested:
>
> sudo grub-install /dev/sda
>
> Before you do that, can you please provide the output of:
>
> $ grub-install -v
>
> and
>
> $ sudo fdisk -l
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
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Hi

here is the output:

csverma at blackhole:~/QuadMesh/src$ grub-install  -v
grub-install (GNU GRUB 0.97)
csverma at blackhole:~/QuadMesh/src$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for csverma:

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x69afd9f3

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        9037    72582028    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           13734       14593     6907950    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3            9038       13733    37720620    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            9038       13534    36122121   83  Linux
/dev/sda6           13535       13733     1598436   82  Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

I am wondering why Solaris is out there.

Mir
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