Dell Ubuntu boot files missing

2008-02-28 Thread Harold
My fairly new Dell Inspirion 530 is running Ubuntu 7.10 The system seemed to be running correctly this afternoon. When I booted it up last night a pop-up window said that Ubuntu is running in low graphics mode It ould not let me set it at better than 800x600. I had been running about 1200 x

Re: Dell Ubuntu boot files missing

2008-02-28 Thread Erich Newell
The last time that happened to me, there was an update to only the i386 kernel which is installed by default. I run either the "generic" or a custom kernel on all my machines. When the i386 kernel was updated, it was moved to the 1st rank in /boot/grub/menu.lst Make sure you are still booting the

Re: Ubuntu in low graphics mode (was: Dell Ubuntu boot files missing)

2008-02-28 Thread Ted Gould
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 10:56 -0700, Harold wrote: > When I booted it up last night a pop-up window said that Ubuntu is > running in low graphics mode > > It ould not let me set it at better than 800x600. > I had been running about 1200 x something. This means that Ubuntu is running the VESA graph

Re: Ubuntu in low graphics mode (was: Dell Ubuntu boot files missing)

2008-02-28 Thread Harold
ct: Re: Ubuntu in low graphics mode (was: Dell Ubuntu boot files missing) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:33:41 -0800 Mailer: Evolution 2.21.92 On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 10:56 -0700, Harold wrote: > When I booted it up last night a pop-up window said that Ubuntu is > running in low graphics mode > &g