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forcifer
May 25th, 2008, 10:01 PM
So i installed unbuntu (8.04 i think, whatever the most recent one is) on my mom's computer that i built (MSI K9N Neo-F, x1950 pro PCIe, 1gb ram, 80gb PATA hdd goodness) and everything was working fine. i installed the updates, installed thunderbird, but then i restarted for the updates to take effect and such. now is where i am having problems:

when i rebooted, it says loading GRUB 1.5, then this command prompt style thing shows up that i presume is grub. and i dont have the slightest clue as to what to do. any help would be greatly appreciaited :)

btw, i did the TAB for the possible commands, and if i try just normal "boot" it says kernel must load, and if i try "kernel" then there is something about file path...im not sure. this is the first time i have really used linux outside of saving others computers and all help would be very nice :)

update: if i try loading from live CD and choose boot from local disk, then it says loading grub 1.5 and, a bit later, Error 18. help please

Pumalite
May 25th, 2008, 10:05 PM
Boot your Live CD and post:
sudo fdisk -l

forcifer
May 25th, 2008, 10:17 PM
alright i did that and this is what shows up right underneath it

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xdf8e31d9

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 9352 75119908+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 9353 9729 3028252+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 9353 9729 3028221 82 Linux swap / Solaris

is that what is supposed to happen? ill try a reboot to see if anything works now. thanks :)

Pumalite
May 25th, 2008, 10:23 PM
Are you sure you installed the Desktop version?

forcifer
May 25th, 2008, 10:26 PM
i think i did. well, its working now. with the reboot, there werent any grub errors. time to see if ATI drivers work now =/

EDIT: the X1950 series isnt mentioned under the xorg information thing. should i still install, or should i just leave it as it?

Pumalite
May 25th, 2008, 10:42 PM
ATI is a problem in Linux. Most ATI cards do better with 'vesa' as the driver than with the proprietary driver. Some people do well with Envy:
http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

forcifer
May 26th, 2008, 03:46 AM
thanks :) the same dumb error is back, i might try redownloading, reburning, reformatting and see if that makes it any better. thanks again though :D

Pumalite
May 26th, 2008, 03:51 AM
You are welcome. Good luck.