brolin_1911a1
November 1st, 2009, 10:18 PM
I'm running an Athlon64 3700+ CPU, NVidia GeForce 6600 video adapter card, 2GB RAM. I've been running Ubuntu on one or more machines since v5.04. On this particular machine, I'd installed a new drive a few months back as a dual boot running WinXP and Ubuntu 8.10 upgraded to 9.04.
I'd never been satisfied with the 9.04 upgrade and thought I should have just done a clean install. So, when I saw that karmic koala was available I downloaded the amd-64 liveCD and installed it. I wiped, resized, and reformatted the existing Linux partitions, installing 9.10 as the only Linux OS.
The problem is that while the LiveCD boots and runs beautifully and quite fast, I can't boot into Ubuntu from the HD. WinXP boots as usual. But when I select Ubuntu normal boot, I get a flickering X term boot screen with jerky input that is so bad I cannot enter my username and password. I can boot into rescue mode, again to the xterm screen, and can log in successfully in that mode. But when I attempt to start a gnome GUI I get an error message saying that there are no drivers.
Finally, separate issue, using the LiveCD to boot and look at hda5 (my / partition) I find /etc/grub but no menu.lst in the ../grub folder. I would like to edit grub to make WinXP the default boot OS since it requires such frequent reboots compared to Linux.
I'd never been satisfied with the 9.04 upgrade and thought I should have just done a clean install. So, when I saw that karmic koala was available I downloaded the amd-64 liveCD and installed it. I wiped, resized, and reformatted the existing Linux partitions, installing 9.10 as the only Linux OS.
The problem is that while the LiveCD boots and runs beautifully and quite fast, I can't boot into Ubuntu from the HD. WinXP boots as usual. But when I select Ubuntu normal boot, I get a flickering X term boot screen with jerky input that is so bad I cannot enter my username and password. I can boot into rescue mode, again to the xterm screen, and can log in successfully in that mode. But when I attempt to start a gnome GUI I get an error message saying that there are no drivers.
Finally, separate issue, using the LiveCD to boot and look at hda5 (my / partition) I find /etc/grub but no menu.lst in the ../grub folder. I would like to edit grub to make WinXP the default boot OS since it requires such frequent reboots compared to Linux.