Thank you. i'll head over and do as you suggest.
The bug is the recommendation to install grub on all partitions eg. sdb, sdb1, sdb2, ... That isn't a good thing (at least for a dual boot sys)...
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Thank you. i'll head over and do as you suggest.
The bug is the recommendation to install grub on all partitions eg. sdb, sdb1, sdb2, ... That isn't a good thing (at least for a dual boot sys)...
Symptom:
initiated update. Grub update required user input. The 'help' message is incorrect. Attached is a .jpg of a Grub message during the upgrade.
Question:
how does this get...
Yes! Thanks.
We can call this solved but embarrassingly I can only give a partial explanation of what I did.
I used testdisk. Somewhere I found an excellent guide that walked me through the process of...
As I recall, at one point you are asked where you want to install grub. As mentioned, all partitions are shown. Where the direction is I don't recall but it is affiliated with that page so maybe a...
fdisk output is:
Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes...
Ran Boot Info Script. Results attached.
Machine: Win2000 Pro, AMD64 Athlon 2GHz, 2x80Gb HD, 2 GB RAM
Symptoms: Running 9.10 with dual boot no probs for ~ 1 year. Decided to upgrade online via synaptic to 10.04. Upgrade went well no...
I upgraded 8.10=>9.04 yesterday. There appeared to be no problems and I used the laptop happily for several hours.
Today I booted up and shortly after the cpu fan came on and stayed on. Also,...
From my last post it seemed the file was corrupted. So:
ran 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' which cleared the 'available' file;
ran 'sudo aptitude dist-upgrade'
The upgrade proceeded as...
From my last post it seemed the file was corrupted. So:
ran 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' which cleared the 'available' file;
ran 'sudo aptitude dist-upgrade'
The upgrade proceeded...
Also interesting: I can open '/var/lib/.../available-old' from gedit but can't open '/var/lib/..../available' from gedit. When I try the latter it says it cannot detect the character coding. I...
When I run the suggested command, I get:
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: parse error, in file...
I've had a similar experience however I get the following error:
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg-query: parse error,...
Crash: network upgrade 8.10-9,04
Hi there. Thanks for looking. I've been using Ubuntu since 8.04 and this is my first upgrade via the web. I got a crash with the error listed below. It seems I have a problem with my package...