SyCo123
October 23rd, 2008, 10:13 PM
Laptop is an HP DV5215us that works fine now but every Kernel update wipes Grub and I have to go edit the boot/grub/menu.lst (I'm remembering where it is but on a Windows PC art work so location might not be correct)
Ubuntu 7.10 went on first over the old Win Media Edition wiping it and being the only OS on the computer. Then because I simply wanted to watch netflix I had to install an entire other operating system for that pleaure (XP pro). So I had to move Ubuntu off the start of the drive because poor old windows just has to be first. So now kernel updates kill my grub script and I have to manually edit it each time. Bit of a pain but no big problem for me. I would imagine it would be beyond a total noob and their PC would effectively be bricked until they can boot it.
Just thought I'd throw it out there in case it's not a well known problem.
The fix is simply editing line for hda(0,0) to the new partition location, in my case hda(0,1) (I think) and adding the windows boot option again. Of course I have a back up of the file before doing the update now. It's all a bit of a pain though. (still on 7.10, stable and happy)
Ubuntu 7.10 went on first over the old Win Media Edition wiping it and being the only OS on the computer. Then because I simply wanted to watch netflix I had to install an entire other operating system for that pleaure (XP pro). So I had to move Ubuntu off the start of the drive because poor old windows just has to be first. So now kernel updates kill my grub script and I have to manually edit it each time. Bit of a pain but no big problem for me. I would imagine it would be beyond a total noob and their PC would effectively be bricked until they can boot it.
Just thought I'd throw it out there in case it's not a well known problem.
The fix is simply editing line for hda(0,0) to the new partition location, in my case hda(0,1) (I think) and adding the windows boot option again. Of course I have a back up of the file before doing the update now. It's all a bit of a pain though. (still on 7.10, stable and happy)