[09:02] <chinoto> Anyone know how to use grub2 to boot isos?
[09:03] <chinoto> trying to add the iso of "Trinity Rescue Kit 3.3" to a usb for recovery in addition to a few other isos
[09:05] <chinoto> I think all I need is to know what to put after "linux (loop)/kernel.trk" in grub.cfg
[09:09] <chinoto> I think I got it, brb
[09:09] <chinoto> (need to reboot to test)
[09:10] <chinoto> nvm, I have no idea what I'm doing
[09:28] <damian> apparently I was supposed to do (hd0,2) because the second argument is 1-based rather than 0-based
[09:29] <damian> but now trinity can't find itself because it expected itself to be located on a cdrom drive rather than a iso on a usb
[18:39] <tonyyarusso> Yeah, that nonsense of having one of them 0-based and the other 1-based is tricky.
[20:10] <ubuntu_> it doesn't see the iso, yet it manages to load anyway...
[20:51] <kermit> while upgrading to ubuntu 10.4, my system locked up, i had to power cycle, now X wont even load, what should i do?
[21:43] <kermit> while upgrading to ubuntu 10.4, my system locked up, i had to power cycle, now X wont even load, what should i do?
[21:53] <Obsidian1723> You upgraded from 91.0?
[21:53] <Obsidian1723> 9.10
[21:54] <kermit> yes
[21:54] <kermit> someone said do aptitute dist-upgrade from a terminal
[21:55] <Obsidian1723> yeah, the upgrades SOMETIMES work.
[21:55]  * tonyyarusso headdesks
[21:55] <kermit> i had set some /proc/sys/vm stuff really high, i think i had a memory deadlock
[21:56] <kermit> i'll set it lower now
[21:56] <Obsidian1723> If you wanmt hack and slah at it for hours you can, but really, I'd load the Live CD and copy your /home over to an external hard drive, then just reformat the PC.
[21:56] <Obsidian1723> Do a clean install.
[21:56] <kermit> i set the background ratio and ratio to 100 hehe
[21:56] <kermit> now i set it to 50/75
[21:56] <tonyyarusso> kermit: No.  To do an upgrade you either use update-manager for a GUI or do-release-upgrade from CLI.  Never do a dist-upgrade directly.
[21:56] <Obsidian1723> Upgrades are messy.
[21:56] <tonyyarusso> (You'd know this if you read the instructions....)
[21:57] <kermit> tonyyarusso: release-upgrade? from aptitude?
[21:57] <kermit> what instructions? i have no GUI
[21:57] <tonyyarusso> kermit: No.  Just 'do-release-upgrade'.  That's the command.
[21:57] <tonyyarusso> kermit: The instructions posted online every time there's a new release.
[21:57] <kermit> tonyyarusso: oh ok thanks
[21:57] <kermit> they post CLI instructions? huh.. i figured webbrowsing in text mode would be futile in 2010
[21:58] <kermit> omg is that hail?
[21:58] <Obsidian1723> Iveh ad the worse luck with dist upgrades, so I just reformat.
[21:58] <tonyyarusso> kermit: people have to upgrade servers sometime - might as well tell them how.
[21:58] <kermit> tonyyarusso: oh good point
[21:58] <kermit> tonyyarusso: should i ^C the apt-get dist-upgrade then?
[21:58] <kermit> and use the command you suggest
[21:59] <kermit> oh its done
[21:59] <tonyyarusso> http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/upgrade
[21:59] <tonyyarusso> For future reference
[21:59] <kermit> in the future i'm hoping not to crash during the GUI upgrade
[21:59] <kermit> but i'll write it down
[22:02] <kermit> tonyyarusso: oh i hadnt started apt-get dist-updtae afterall, just some dpkg command it told me to.. the command you said said i'm already upgrade, so i'm doing aptitude dist-upgrade which is doing lots of things