Re: [Bug 1450905] Re: Why is my laptop not booting up after a major 112M update yesterday?

2015-05-04 Thread Gary Pearce
Yes Ralph, you are correct as I got confirmation from Conniccal today that it is not a grub problem and that in fact it is the 3.16.0.36 kernel that is not compatible with grub 2 beta~ which they bounced on us recently. As I said I just deleted all 3.16 kernels off my system using MC (Midnight

[Bug 1450905] Re: Why is my laptop not booting up after a major 112M update yesterday?

2015-05-03 Thread Gary Pearce
Right now I am trying to get back to the former GRUB 0.97 but it's very hard to sort out even though it's still on the hard drive. Any one know how to switch default Grubs or if it's even a solution to the problem / or will it work with 14.04.2 as it was working fine with 14.04.1. -- You

Re: [Bug 1450905] Re: Why is my laptop not booting up after a major 112M update yesterday?

2015-05-03 Thread Gary Pearce
I am just as confused to some extent, however I'm of the opinion that the problem exists because of this new 2.02~Beta Grub which was auto loaded a few days ago. I was using Trusty Tahr 14.04.1 but after the recent update it updated my laptop to version 14.04.2 and along with it came this new Beta

[Bug 1450905] Re: Why is my laptop not booting up after a major 112M update yesterday?

2015-05-03 Thread Gary Pearce
Correction to above info - I now realize that i was using GRUB 2.0 and not GRUB 0.97 before the Beta 2.02~ was downloadmy mistake! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1450905 Title:

[Bug 1450905] Re: Why is my laptop not booting up after a major 112M update yesterday?

2015-05-03 Thread Gary Pearce
** Changed in: ubuntu Status: Confirmed = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1450905 Title: Why is my laptop not booting up after a major 112M update yesterday? To

[Bug 1450905] [NEW] Why is my laptop not booting up after a major 112M update yesterday?

2015-05-01 Thread Gary Pearce
Public bug reported: Running Dell Inspiron with Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS only. After a major 112MB update yesterday, laptop will not boot up properly. I have to manually power it down and reboot it to get to use a previous recovery mode. Is their some way to correct this issue? ** Affects: ubuntu