On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 , Gustin Johnson wrote: > Should not have to create a new user. If the new kernel is indeed > installed you may have to update grub. See below. > > update-grub is your friend. For some reason this was not run > automatically on your machine during the install. Was your install > interrupted? It doesn't really matter unless you are trying to > reproduce the problem for a bug report. > > Once you have updated grub you should notice a significant improvement. > ~ When you are booting into the new kernels it is a good idea to remove > the old ones.
OK, I think I know the problem. After I ran update-grub, the report showed the new kernels were found and added to the list, but then they still didn't appear on the grub menu when I rebooted. That's because this is a multi-boot system, and the MBR is pointed to the last installation, which I had hand-edited to include the other two partitions. I had forgotten that I was actually using the grub list from Musix to boot Ubuntu. I booted Musix, and ran update-grub. This was a mistake, as update-grub did not look on the other partitions for kernels, and erased the Ubuntu and 64 Studio kernels from the list. So for now I can't boot Ubuntu Studio, but the grub list on that partition should be OK. I am typing this in Musix. Rather than edit the grub.list in Musix, I think I would rather fix the MBR to use the grub.list in Ubuntu Studio. Then I can get rid of Musix and 64 Studio, which I don't use. > > | > | There are a couple of huge long threads on Ubuntu forums on all kinds of > | things that happened to people's systems when they upgraded to Hardy, > | which is why I waited so long, hoping bugs would get reported and > | fixed. I'm glad this one is LTS; I'm going to skip the next release or > | two so I can have everything working for a while before an upgrade can > | mess it up again. > > Hundreds of installs out of how many thousands (tens, hundreds, or > more)? Don't be fooled into thinking there is an epidemic on this basis > alone. Of course you are free (and encouraged) to come to your own > conclusions. I do not intend to start a flame war over this. Our > experiences differ and that is about as far as we are going to get. Apparently, with the right hardware, everything is wonderful. I did do quite a bit of research before building my system, but not enough, it seems. I also have Ubuntu Studio on a first generation Apple MacBook, and in general it works better than my desktop. The theme looks great on the MacBook screen. Sad that the system I installed Ubuntu on as an afterthought works better than the one I built for it. > > At any rate I hope that update-grub does the trick. You should not need > any switches or other command line options though you do need sudo or > admin privileges. Well, unfortunately I applied this tool where it would do the most damage. I think I saw a tutorial on rewriting an MBR at ubuntuguide.org . If you know one you like better, I'd like to know about it. Thanks, Paul -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
