John Matthews wrote:
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> The grub appears as its booting up. It has a list of two kernels with 
> recvoery underneath and a few other things, including the xp partition, 
> that I tried getting help for months ago, but that didnt get anywhere 
> either. I then learnt by accident, that this grub had a bug, which wasnt 
> posted about until after I had done the partition, and screwed it up the 
> first time, and tried again, giving myself two ubuntu partitions and an 
> xp partition, if you added more than two things to a partition it 
> screwed up the windows partiition. When I initially did the partition, 
> it f******D up my xp, which was just installed by the people who 
> repaired my pc. So I can only use Ubuntu on this pc. Screwed there.
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> The kernels are Ubuntu 2.6.32-22 and .21, Plus a couple of other things 
> like I already posted about.
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> Sorry, I am too tired, been at this for way too long.
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ah, interesting, this is new information. A fresh install of Lucid does
not show grub at all unless you hold shift, although thinking about it
it might have to for dual boot setups. At the top of the grub screen it
should list the version number of grub. Does it start with 1.98?


Alan.

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