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I changed the 160G HD to boot before the 320G one and my problem is gone!

Thank you!

Here is the result by running boot_info_script055.sh.


Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010

============================= Boot Info Summary:...

I agree with you. When I upgrade my laptop from Ubuntu 8.x to 9.10, I have to remove grub2 and go back to grub to make the boot loader work at that time. There are many changes in grub2 from grub.

Hi oldfred,
I tried to re-install GRUB 2 by following your instruction but the outcome remains the same. The GRUB boot loader get into interactive mode (prompting "grub >") and I had to enter...

Hi alterpinguin,
I have dual OS (Ubuntu & XP) installed on separated hard drives in this computer, so I think the GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMOUT may not be the one to fix my problem.

Here is the reason...

Thank you, oldfred and alterpinguin.
I will try your suggestion later. (Again, home vs. office)
And let you know the outcome.

Hi, the following is the output of "sudo fdisk -l" after booted from a 10.04 liveCD --
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ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda:...

I will post the required information later today because I don't have access to the computer this moment. (home vs. office)

Hello,
I did a clean installation of Ubuntu 10.04 and I found that after the computer booted, the GRUB stopped by waiting for entering command -- "grub >". The GRUB version is 1.98.

I want to...

I installed Ubuntu 9.10 & Grub2 on the same HP 6910P laptop computer where Windows XP Professional had been installed and run for quiet a long time ago.

I encountered the same Grub hanged...

Hello,
After a few tries, I realized that the problem could be the XP installation disk that I used did not have SATA driver to support the new SATA hard disk drive.

So I changed to use the...

Hi,
I tried to boot this netbook with freedos via a USB disk, then I ran spfdisk to create brand new partition for the 160G HD in the netbook with the following details:
1. active and bootable
2....

Hi,
I tried to use XP install CD to boot my netbook, but it turned out the Windows XP installation procedure stopped due to it detected a hard drive format inconsistant problem.

I as restating...

Thanks for the advise. I will try your recommendation once I successfully get back the 160G and install WinXP first.

Best regards,

I used "gparted" to re-create the fat32 format primary dos partition, do I need to run "format" command to complete the partition creation in Ubuntu?

Hi,
I need help to get back the missed 140G hard disk space after I deleted ubuntu 9.10 (upgraded from 9.04) and reclaimed the whole hard disk (149.05GB as shown on gparted screen) using "gparted"...

Thanks for the comments. I sure will come back to learn how to customize the HD space but I think that there more points that I want to explore first.

Cheers!

The space limitation issue was gone when I re-install the OS and select to use the entire disk space (160G) for the new system.

Thanks for all your attentions.

Hi,
I choose to install the Linux system onto a 160G hard drive which I already clean up the data. But it seems that the installation only allocate 2.3GB for Linux and the root folder (2.1G) is...

Hi,
I am new to Linux / ubuntu and I want to install my first Linux machine. This machine already has Windows XP running and I want to add Linux to it.

I downloaded the latest 9.04 CD from...