-=> MIKE POWELL wrote to SNIPER <=-

 > Does Ubunshit  use lilo or grub?

 MP> grub

 > Might have to boot to a floppy disk, access the drive, reconfigure
 > lilo/grub and rerun lilo or grub to make it use the new kernel.

 MP> That was one frustrating thing regarding it being a laptop.  This
 MP> laptop is new enough that it didn't have a floppy drive.  I did try
 MP> booting from the Live CD & manually restoring some files, but I either
 MP> didn't do it right, or it didn't matter.

 > What is happening, is your boot program hasn't loaded the newest kernel,
 > making it the default.

 MP> I thought about that, sort of.  I did think enough to check the boot
 MP> menu (by hitting ESC within so many seconds before it defaults) and it
 MP> actually had both the old & new listed.  I tried both, figuring that if
 MP> it knew enough to list both, it had loaded both.  But maybe it did not.

 MP> After that, I tried the manual restore.

It still may not have updated itself to the new kernel.  I haven't played
with Grub, so can't help there.

 MP> Funny thing, even with the reinstall, it did not install the same way
 MP> the second time, and certain things that had worked fine the first time
 MP> were a pain the second time.  Of course, being pretty irate probably
 MP> didn't help me remember things too good.  ;-)

Guess that's why I stick with Slackware and Debian.  ;-)



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