My system has for a long time been slightly unstable, in that occasionally it locks up (as far as user input and graphical updates are concerned) entirely for no apparent reason (although, weirdly, if music, etc, is playing at the time, it repeatedly loops the last second or so of the sound that was playing, suggesting that somewhere, deep down, the computer is at least still partially alive..). I suspect this is due to a probably shonky motherboard, but I'd like to consider all options..
I've gathered that disabling acpi and/or apic (with the noacpi and noapic boot options) may increase system stability in some instances, and have read the GrubHowto: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GrubHowto However, this contains the fear-inducing phrase: "If /boot is mounted on another partition and you use update-grub, then you may run into problems." ("another partition" from *what*, btw?) Soooo.., how can I find out where /boot actually is? My system has whatever-is-installed-in-the-MBR installed in the MBR of my first hard disk (hda) (which otherwise contains Some Other System), but Ubuntu itself is installed on the second hard disk (hdb). Thanks for any advice, David. -- | David M, __________| replyto email valid <365 days | en, fr, (de) | | Edinburgh, Scotland. | but on-list replies preferred | ________ | > Please trim quoted text & interleave reply comments for readability. < -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
