ed-koala
November 1st, 2009, 01:11 PM
I'm having serious issues trying to upgrade to 9.10.
First attempt - upgrade from 9.04 via update manager:
All seemed well until reboot, where I got dumped into a command prompt. This probably is a issue with nvidia drivers ... I've had problems on the last two upgrades which required editing xorg,conf (which doesn't seem to be available now). I'll post the solution link in a reply, but I'm not really wanting to try this route again.
Second attempt - clean install from live CD:
Downloaded and run install from disk. Hard drive recognized as raid setup (first time ever). Strange naming tho - /dev/mapper/nvidia_blahblah. Grub error 2 upon boot, no idea what's wrong. Redid install loading grub to root partition gives grub error 17.
Third attempt - Upgrade from clean install of 9.04:
Finally got 9.10 to boot. Definately an issue with grub and the raid setup from before, non-raid partitioning works fine. nvidia restricted drivers will not install, fails trying from "activate restricted driver". World of Warcraft hardly able to run, so back to 9.04.
My system seems to have serious nvidia issues, as usual, because of dual graphics cards. I'd love to be able to just upgrade and have that work, but how? And why the grub errors? and why can't nvidia drivers install from a CLEAN install? Until these issues are answered, I cannot upgrade, and if the problems persist too long, I may be forced back to Windows (pls, pls noooooooo)
First attempt - upgrade from 9.04 via update manager:
All seemed well until reboot, where I got dumped into a command prompt. This probably is a issue with nvidia drivers ... I've had problems on the last two upgrades which required editing xorg,conf (which doesn't seem to be available now). I'll post the solution link in a reply, but I'm not really wanting to try this route again.
Second attempt - clean install from live CD:
Downloaded and run install from disk. Hard drive recognized as raid setup (first time ever). Strange naming tho - /dev/mapper/nvidia_blahblah. Grub error 2 upon boot, no idea what's wrong. Redid install loading grub to root partition gives grub error 17.
Third attempt - Upgrade from clean install of 9.04:
Finally got 9.10 to boot. Definately an issue with grub and the raid setup from before, non-raid partitioning works fine. nvidia restricted drivers will not install, fails trying from "activate restricted driver". World of Warcraft hardly able to run, so back to 9.04.
My system seems to have serious nvidia issues, as usual, because of dual graphics cards. I'd love to be able to just upgrade and have that work, but how? And why the grub errors? and why can't nvidia drivers install from a CLEAN install? Until these issues are answered, I cannot upgrade, and if the problems persist too long, I may be forced back to Windows (pls, pls noooooooo)