i mat
June 15th, 2011, 11:54 PM
hello
recently installed a new machine with dual boot windows 7 and ubuntu 11.04 (actually ubuntu studio dist, but i cant see how that matters in this instance)
the 2 os's are on the same (partitioned) HD. both my windows and ubuntu are 64 bit versions. bootloader is of course grub2. BIOS is ami v1.7. cpu is an i7
I can post more hardware details if needed
I actually have 2 issues that are probably related but may not be.
issue 1: after a period of inactivity on the machine (like a day), ubuntu will not boot. It is displayed by grub but when launching it, it will result in a hanging boot and a blank screen. However, when i reboot, ubuntu can be launched. I can log in and everything works fine.
(on this one i was thinking about some mainboard battery issue.. but the machine is quite new and also you would expect windows boot to also suffer from that problem. I have no problems booting windows)
issue2: before a succesfull ubuntu boot, i will always get:
error: environment block too small. Hit any key to continue
After this, ubuntu always launces fine.
(on this, i have no idea what that means and am not even sure if the error is an ubuntu or grub error, but i am betting grub. Therefore i already tried reinstalling grub but this did not fix it)
So seeing as both are boot-related you would think they are part of the same problem..
btw I am kinda new at this ubuntu game, but on the other hand no logfile scared me yet so hopefully someone could walk me through a checklist (or just telling me how to solve it would do just as well ;-)
cheers,
mat
recently installed a new machine with dual boot windows 7 and ubuntu 11.04 (actually ubuntu studio dist, but i cant see how that matters in this instance)
the 2 os's are on the same (partitioned) HD. both my windows and ubuntu are 64 bit versions. bootloader is of course grub2. BIOS is ami v1.7. cpu is an i7
I can post more hardware details if needed
I actually have 2 issues that are probably related but may not be.
issue 1: after a period of inactivity on the machine (like a day), ubuntu will not boot. It is displayed by grub but when launching it, it will result in a hanging boot and a blank screen. However, when i reboot, ubuntu can be launched. I can log in and everything works fine.
(on this one i was thinking about some mainboard battery issue.. but the machine is quite new and also you would expect windows boot to also suffer from that problem. I have no problems booting windows)
issue2: before a succesfull ubuntu boot, i will always get:
error: environment block too small. Hit any key to continue
After this, ubuntu always launces fine.
(on this, i have no idea what that means and am not even sure if the error is an ubuntu or grub error, but i am betting grub. Therefore i already tried reinstalling grub but this did not fix it)
So seeing as both are boot-related you would think they are part of the same problem..
btw I am kinda new at this ubuntu game, but on the other hand no logfile scared me yet so hopefully someone could walk me through a checklist (or just telling me how to solve it would do just as well ;-)
cheers,
mat