Repairing Ubuntu without loosing data or breaking Windows

Thu Jan 20 22:04:27 UTC 2011

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Enrique Becerra <kabeza at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have some doubts

>
> 4) a friend of mine told me he believes the gdm freezing is being
> caused by grub with ext3 and that I should reinstall everything from
> scratch (backup before) and put everything on ext4

Grub 1 (Legacy) has issues with ext4, not the other way around (Grub2
supports ext3).

About freezing, have you run memtest? Linux is not as forgiving as
Windows on a faulty hardware.

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L M Nicolosi, Eng.
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