[Bug 1126703] Re: I up dated unbuntu, now I have no side bar/ destop icons

2013-02-15 Thread John Holmes
@ dwatne10 I have to boot it up to be sure, but I think it is 12.10. Previous comments show it may be a lack of support for my graphics chipset. Solutions required me to access the terminal, which I can do, but I don't know how to manipulate the fix. The machine is a dual-boot with windows 7, al

[Bug 10712] Re: GRUB doesn't boot

2007-02-13 Thread John Holmes
by the way im no mbr expert there are so many variations with operating systems and packages that make it a nightmare to deal with i used fdisk.exe /mbr to fix the mbr on my windows drive i believe it to be an asus motherboard bios problem in my case it's an older p4s333 asus mother boerd with an

[Bug 10712] Re: GRUB doesn't boot

2007-02-13 Thread John Holmes
i had similar problems with xp and grub also new to ubuntu so i resolvse it by using removeable trays with seperate hard drives for each operating system set them up on primary controller i shut down exchange system h/d and reboot just a method that i chose to use because i feared losing all my