den160593
October 30th, 2009, 04:12 AM
Hi,
Today I upgraded to 9.10 Ubuntu. I haven't really had a chance to try it out. When I load grub (i have dual boot with windows xp) it still says on the selection menu the option for Ubuntu is Ubuntu 9.04. I click on it, and it comes up with that typical text (unloading drives or something) then proceeds to start load Ubuntu 9.04 with that old loading screen. Then mid-way it kind of freezes the screen and switches to the new loading screen in Ubuntu 9.10.
Is there a way to fix this and make it load 9.10 straight away?
Additionally. The first TWO times I loaded up 9.10, I logged into my user account and then it just failed (multi-coloured screen that I couldn't really do anything to, although, I could move the mouse). I get a message from 'gdu-notification-daemon' that "A harddrive may be failing" just before it goes to that multi-coloured blurry screen. Despite this message, I checked XP and it works fine. In that I can access all harddrives. I however have had this problem before on Ubuntu, but it was fixed by running fsck (if I recall correctly).
How can I fix this? I mean its unlikely that it's a physical harddrive failure as XP works fine...
Thanks heaps!
EDIT: I did the last post from Ubuntu. I shut down, came back a while back. Now it's gone back to the multicoloured screen where I can't do anything. Dunno... so that's 3/4 times that's its loaded normally then about 30seconds after loading the desktop it goes to that screen. Perhaps something went wrong in the install, like Ubuntu 9.04 wasn't properly changed or something? Just when I shut down last time it started shutting down the same way as 9.04... then it kinda switched to adifferent screen (what I've seen of 9.10 screenshots) and then shut down... (other 3 times I had to do it from my hard ware because I can't access anything) Thanks.
Today I upgraded to 9.10 Ubuntu. I haven't really had a chance to try it out. When I load grub (i have dual boot with windows xp) it still says on the selection menu the option for Ubuntu is Ubuntu 9.04. I click on it, and it comes up with that typical text (unloading drives or something) then proceeds to start load Ubuntu 9.04 with that old loading screen. Then mid-way it kind of freezes the screen and switches to the new loading screen in Ubuntu 9.10.
Is there a way to fix this and make it load 9.10 straight away?
Additionally. The first TWO times I loaded up 9.10, I logged into my user account and then it just failed (multi-coloured screen that I couldn't really do anything to, although, I could move the mouse). I get a message from 'gdu-notification-daemon' that "A harddrive may be failing" just before it goes to that multi-coloured blurry screen. Despite this message, I checked XP and it works fine. In that I can access all harddrives. I however have had this problem before on Ubuntu, but it was fixed by running fsck (if I recall correctly).
How can I fix this? I mean its unlikely that it's a physical harddrive failure as XP works fine...
Thanks heaps!
EDIT: I did the last post from Ubuntu. I shut down, came back a while back. Now it's gone back to the multicoloured screen where I can't do anything. Dunno... so that's 3/4 times that's its loaded normally then about 30seconds after loading the desktop it goes to that screen. Perhaps something went wrong in the install, like Ubuntu 9.04 wasn't properly changed or something? Just when I shut down last time it started shutting down the same way as 9.04... then it kinda switched to adifferent screen (what I've seen of 9.10 screenshots) and then shut down... (other 3 times I had to do it from my hard ware because I can't access anything) Thanks.