On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:22, Brad Kowalczyk wrote: > Hi all, > > Couple of questions: > 1. I got my ubuntu cd's the the other day (BTW the live cd did not work > for me, seemed to die at X startup, just a black screen) and promptly > did an install onto a vacant partition on my HD. Everything ran > smoothly, detected all my hardware and my XP installation. However > despite XP being on the grub boot list it now refuses to boot.
<...> Would you be able to provide the contents of your grub.conf file? You should find it inside your /boot/grub dir. Make sure to mount /boot if it is not mounted by default. Regarding browsing your XP partition, it is most likely that your XP installation is on a NTFS partition. I don't know Ubuntu, but it may either be that NTFS support has not been compiled into the kernel, or as a module, or if it has been compiled as a module it is not being loaded. Many linux distros now have a module autoloading mechanisms... but again, I don't know Ubuntu. Bottom line is, you should be able to browse your NTFS partition. Note, AFAIK NTFS should at present be used READ ONLY. Write support is preliminary and dangerous. I have a second FAT32 windows partition where I store shared files. > 2. I finally managed to get my computer connected to my ISP under Linux > (ubuntu) but despite a connection (dialup) I could not actually access > any address on the net, with either direct IP address or domain name. > Then after I installed FC3 I treid again and this time I got connected > and was able to connect to addresses on the net, but only for a few > minutes before everything came to a halt despite the connection still > being there. I checked /var/log/messages and there is the following > extract: There are so many places where things could go wrong... where to begin :) First try pings... see where the buck stops. It may well be a problem with OptusNet... so see if you can ping the DNS server. If so, check that you can resolve DNS. Then try tracerouting. If not, the the problem is likely to be with either your ppp daemon or your modem driver. What kind of modem are you using? You seem to indicate you had trouble before... what was it, what was your solution? Linux is great when it just works, but when it doesn't... Cheers, Marek Wawrzyczny -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
