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Hi Jim,

I was able to get to VirtualBox later on last night. I just started it up it worked just fine.

Before I had posted to this forum, I had tried a variety of ways of installing it but the...

Hello gentlemen,

Success. I was waiting around for trick-or-treaters, so decided to use Synaptic, as suggested by Jim. I rebooted and ran the following.


paul@paul-laptop:~$ uname -r...

Hi Jim,

I will definitely give that a try.

If it doesn't work I think that I will download 12.10, back up my data and install from scratch.

Cheers,
/Paul

Thanks for the heads-up Jim.
Cheers,
/Paul

Thanks to everyone!

What an awesome community! I have learned quite a bit going through this.

I'm not too worried about things going wrong. I will back up my data and try the boot repair that...

Hello gentlemen,

Here is the content of my grub menu.lst


paul@paul-laptop:~$ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
# menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8)
# grub-install(8),...

Glad to hear that you guys are OK.

Running the two commands you suggested...


paul@paul-laptop:~$ sudo update-grub
[sudo] password for paul:
Searching for GRUB installation directory ......

Thanks for the direction Doug.

BTW I heard BC got hit with a 7.7 earthquake. I hope everything is OK. I'm still having issues with this problem and will certainly understand if you drop it due to...

Hey Doug,

Yes I am running 12.04.

As requested...


ls -l /boot
abi-2.6.28-16-generic
abi-2.6.31-21-generic

Hello,

I'm quite the noob when it comes to getting into the guts of Ubuntu.

I am ultimately trying to get VirtualBox to work...

From all the Googling I have done I have found the problem but...