ninja togo
January 8th, 2010, 01:40 AM
This has to be the sixth time I am going to have to reinstall Ubuntu (Can't get enough of that Linux greatness;)) in the past 6 months.
I just don't understand what exactly is wrong, I don't install anything extra(but the ubuntu restricted extras) yet updates that ask me to reboot will take me to a GRUB command line screen and trying to boot through the command line interface gives me an, "Invalid Magic Number", error.
There should be an official tool for when problems like this come up, so that users like me can easily move their files off their HDD before reinstalling.
I didn't come here to rant but, does anyone know what may be causing this everytime, how it can be avoided maybe even how to deal with the Magic Number error and boot in(I wouldn't mind typing in the commands every time BTW) ?
My system
Hp Compaq 6730s
2.0Ghz 575 Celeron
4GB RAM
Intel X4500MHD
Broadcom 802.11b/g
Please and thank you. :)
I just don't understand what exactly is wrong, I don't install anything extra(but the ubuntu restricted extras) yet updates that ask me to reboot will take me to a GRUB command line screen and trying to boot through the command line interface gives me an, "Invalid Magic Number", error.
There should be an official tool for when problems like this come up, so that users like me can easily move their files off their HDD before reinstalling.
I didn't come here to rant but, does anyone know what may be causing this everytime, how it can be avoided maybe even how to deal with the Magic Number error and boot in(I wouldn't mind typing in the commands every time BTW) ?
My system
Hp Compaq 6730s
2.0Ghz 575 Celeron
4GB RAM
Intel X4500MHD
Broadcom 802.11b/g
Please and thank you. :)