Repairing Ubuntu without loosing data or breaking Windows

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Enrique Becerra <kabeza at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Lucio M Nicolosi <lmnicolosi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Grub 1 (Legacy) has issues with ext4, not the other way around (Grub2
>> supports ext3).
>
> AFAIK I have latest grub. I always kept updated and upgraded since 9.04...
>
>> About freezing, have you run memtest? Linux is not as forgiving as
>> Windows on a faulty hardware.
>
> Yes, I run it without problems. Also tried every entry in my grub
> list. Time before the freezing, I upgraded kernel because I read it
> solved a bug with nvidia drivers, etc. and had been running with this
> for some months until one day PC reset and then gdm begun freezing at
> startup. I'm also suspecting that the nVidia or some video stuff may
> be going bad, because the freeze occurs when gdm shows userlist
>
> PS: any way I can try reinstalling the nvidia driver from my Ubuntu
> 10.10 by launching LIVECD?

Perhaps you could boot from the Live CD and check if your the problem
persists, if so you may gave a hardware problem, if not you could try
to reconfigure your system with "dpkg-reconfigure -a".

L.

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L M Nicolosi, Eng.
GNU-Linux Regist. User #481505 - http://counter.li.org/
Ubuntu 10.10 AMD64