11.04 on a ten year old Dell laptop?

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:26 PM, James Tranowski <jptran at vtidea.net> wrote:
> Regarding digest 107, message 9.
>
> I booted my machine with the Shift Key held down.
>
> My choices for kernel were> 2.6.38-11, 2.6.38-8, and 2.6.35-30
>
> Tried all three of these; with (only) 2.6.35-30, ubuntu came up 'fine.'  The
> only glitch here is that the update manager tells me that it cannot run.
>
> This is better thus far, perhaps still needs a bit of work?


OK, we will begin checking the basics.


First thing to do, is boot pressing the Shift key, and at the GRUB 2
menu select "Memory test (memtest86+)".

Let it run its default tests (it may take 1 to 2 hours), and tell us
whether it finds any errors.




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Ioannis Vranos

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