[07:53] can anyone tell me what hte restricted drivers manager is called so that I can install it? [08:05] jockey :) [10:07] I wonder if there's any value in doing some caching in the ubiquity build, specifically the keyboard maps generation. [11:03] I have / as /dev/sda1, is this set root=(hd0,1) [11:03] I cant make any sense at all out of the fiels in /etc/grub.d [11:04] according to http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html#mozTocId706228 that page [11:05] probably, but with multiple disks there's no guarantee that grub's disk ordering (hd0, hd1) corresponds to Linux's (sda, sdb), which is why there are also 'search' commands with UUIDs in there [11:05] I should hav ea line saying "set root=(hdX,Y) but there are nonoe in that file [11:05] if you have an existing grub.cfg stanza referring to sda1, then copy bits out of that ... [11:05] http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html <- official manual including a configuration reference [11:05] I have messed with this new grub before and always gone back to the old one , it was so easy [11:06] its really complicated now [11:06] that's not very motivating for me to help [11:06] its getting much windows like with bloat and all is ubuntu [11:06] that's even less motivating [11:06] :) [11:06] sorry [11:06] crabby [11:07] main problem is that I got the instal;l on last night adn started adding things like firefox etc but synaptic crashed installing firefox [11:07] and since then nothign will run in a stable mamnner at all, it jsut crashes randomly so if I start a command window it will jsut disappear at random and I have to open another [11:07] really frustrating [11:08] so I thought I will start again, now that my new disk boots I will stick mini.iso on that and point grub at it [11:08] I don't know what that would be - we only really deal with initial installation here, although as it happens I also do bootloader work so I ought to be able to help with that [11:09] I am jsut trying to get [11:09] #!/bin/sh -e [11:09] echo "newgrub" [11:09] cat << EOF [11:09] menuentry "Tinstaller" { [11:09] set root=(hd0,1) [11:09] linux /mini/linux [11:09] initrd /mini/initrd.gz [11:09] do you only have one disk in the machine right now, or do you still have the IDE disk there? [11:09] } [11:09] EOF [11:09] that into the menus, as far as I have read that is correct but when I run grub update I dont get hte newgrub message [11:09] I disconnected the ide disk [11:09] you probably forgot to make that script executable. chmod +x [11:09] no [11:10] it is executable [11:10] where are you expecting that message to appear? [11:10] either my set root is wrong or there is soemthign else wrong with that file but I cant see anything [11:10] the way you've written it, it will go into the configuration file [11:10] when I run update-grub [11:10] try echo "newgrub" >&2 [11:10] also, what did you call the file in /etc/grub.d/ ? [11:10] 15_installer [11:10] ok [11:11] also you know that you'll only get one shot at running the installer if you do it this way? since once you partition it'll overwrite the installer [11:11] ? [11:12] if I reboot you mean [11:12] you have the installer on a disk that you're planning to repartition and overwrite, as I understand it ... [11:12] I meant what I said :-) [11:12] I wont reboot until I see that message when I run update_grub [11:12] no [11:12] I am not planning to repartition, I am planning to overwrite on the same partition because I htink that some packages ahve not installed coorectly in the early days [11:13] well, same thing, the installation will reformat that partition which will remove /mini/linux and /mini/initrd.gz [11:13] so you only get one shot [11:13] and that is why things are crashing out in X [11:13] no particular thing, jsut anythign I run is not stable [11:13] it will not refpormat if I tell it not to [11:13] true, if you take special care in the partitioner then you can manage it [11:14] it woudlnt format anyway last time, I had to preapre the aprtition before I ran the instlaler [11:14] as long as you're aware that you need to [11:14] anyway: try the change I suggested to your grub.d script [11:14] and I ended up not using the amd64 as it woudlnt work, it get bombing out so I went back tot he normal 32 bit one, that installed first time [11:15] thats an ikmprovement, at least it is reading the file for sure [11:15] syntax error :) [11:16] ? [11:16] #!/bin/sh -e [11:16] echo "newgrub" > &2 [11:16] cat << EOF [11:16] menuentry "installer" { [11:16] set root=(hd0,1) [11:16] linux /mini/linux [11:16] initrd /mini/initrd.gz [11:16] } [11:16] EOF [11:16] >&2 [11:16] not > &2 [11:16] important to copy exactly [11:17] :) [11:17] I copied it from the web page, not your text [11:17] http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html#mozTocId706228 [11:17] that web page [11:17] anyway, it worked so reboot time [11:17] BTW, you could just have added to the end of /etc/grub.d/40_custom and saved the effort of writing a script [11:17] back in a bit, hopefully, thanks [11:18] I'm afraid I can't control what third-party web pages advise - sometimes their advice isn't ideal [11:18] I thought that but I dont like to mess with the ones that are on if I dont know what I am doing [11:18] which I usually dont [11:18] 40_custom is explicitly there for you to edit [11:18] fingers crooseed :) [11:18] bye [11:18] precisely because it's easier than writing a new script [11:23] that worked :) [11:23] now I will try to fix the crashing without re installing :) [13:14] grub-installer: cjwatson * r855 lucid-proposed/ (debian/changelog grub-installer): [13:14] grub-installer: Install GRUB to the SATA RAID or multipath device when /boot is on such [13:14] grub-installer: a device, rather than installing to the first hard disk (LP: #603854). [13:32] grub-installer: cjwatson * r856 lucid-proposed/debian/changelog: releasing version 1.49ubuntu11.1 === robbiew is now known as robbiew-lunch