[ubuntu-za] 64 Bit Install

[Bill Cairns]

Nothing can go wrong go wrong go wrong go wrong .....

I did a practice install on my second machine. It was running (32 bit)
13.10 with separate partitions for root and home (and another hard driver
too).

The installation went like a dream - very quickly too because I was not
on-line.

But when I came to booting I got:


error symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found
Entering rescue mode
grub-rescue >

Which extremely informative message I looked up and found that it meant
that Grub 2 was a bust gogga. It is a registered bug and a number of those
commenting on it said that they too had been going from 32 to 64 bit.

I re-installed Grub with the help of SuperGrub and now have a 14.04 system
running ...

Except for my home directory problem which I will post separately to avoid
Subject confusion.

Thanks all,
  Bill


On 20 April 2014 07:16, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks all. I was not "expecting" any problems but was not sure what the
> implications were of such a move. From what you have said, I don't expect
> anything different that that I would have from a 32 to 32 install - and I
> mean install not upgrade.
>
> Incidentally, the last time I went to a new version (to 13.10 on another
> machine) I found it was far better to do so without being connected to the
> Internet and to install all my applications manually rather than letting
> the installer do it for me. Two reasons: one, it was much faster and there
> was no risk of being caught in the middle of upgrading something when the
> lights went out; and two, I always seem to have a lot of applications
> installed that I have no need for and this is a good opportunity to get rid
> of them.
>
> Bill
>
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> On 19 April 2014 19:06, Miles <msdomdonner at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi oom Jan, in my experience here if you have 4g or more ram then 64bit
>> is a bit faster because it moves twice the amount of data that the 32bit
>> does.
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