<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Marius Gedminas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marius@pov.lt" target="_blank">marius@pov.lt</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 06:28:42PM +0100, Gary J. Kirkpatrick wrote:<br>
> I installed Ubuntu 10 on a number of computers in Panama when I was a Peace<br>
> Corps volunteer. One of them contacted me. When grub loads all he has to<br>
> choose from is memory test. Grub version 1.98.<br>
<br>
Ouch.<br>
<br>
> 1) Should I just have him go ahead an run the memory test, say over night?<br>
<br>
That won't fix the problem.<br>
<br>
> 2) He says he ran a program which resulted in this problem. I do not know<br>
> what he did. I think it is probably just a GRUB issue as he is not the<br>
> kind of user that would somehow wipe the system.<br>
<br>
The question is: are there any kernels in /boot? If yes, it's a simple<br>
matter of fixing the grub configuration (by booting a live CD,<br>
chroot'ing into the real system, bind-mounting /proc and /sys and /dev,<br>
and running 'update-grub'). If no, it's a simple matter of<br>
installing a kernel package (by by booting a live CD,<br>
chroot'ing into the real system, bind-mounting /proc and /sys and /dev,<br>
and running 'apt-get update; apt-get install linux-generic').<br>
<br>
There are probably docs on the Internet about how to fix either of these<br>
situations.<br>
<br>
> I figure to just have him install Xubuntu on a usb and take a look at the<br>
> drives to see what is there and then run Boot repair.<br>
<br>
I think that should to fix situation 1 (bad grub config) but probably<br>
won't help situation 2 (missing kernels). Worth a try anyway, and<br>
easier than doing the chroot/bind mounts etc. manually.<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">10.04 is past its sell by date and we should be able to run Xubuntu 14, another reason I am heading in that direction. I'd take some time to learn how to do what you suggested. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">thanks!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">garyk</div><br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div></div></div>
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