Guys, Can we restrict the use of this mailing list to its original purpose that is promoting/localising ubuntu in the UK. I think its really great that you are giving help however the forums etc are the place to do it, or even sending direct email would be better.People will remove themselves from the list if its not relevant to them.
Here are two alternatives: A) Someone set up a technical support mailing list that you can subscribe to. B)If you guys prefer I can set up a basic message board as I have loads of extra bandwidth on my servers. Just send me a list of what forum categorys/topics you guys want and I will be glad to sort it. Regards Geeman -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 May 2006 12:02 To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 13, Issue 2 Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Configuring grub: how do I determine location of /boot? (David M) 2. Re: Configuring grub: how do I determine location of /boot? (Pete Ryland) 3. Re: Configuring grub: how do I determine location of /boot? (David M) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 18:48:07 +0100 From: David M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Configuring grub: how do I determine location of /boot? To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. < ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 22:39:49 +0100 From: Pete Ryland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Configuring grub: how do I determine location of /boot? To: British Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 06:48:07 +0100, David M wrote: > (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..) The audio looping doesn't necessarily mean any software is still running; if there is stuff in the audio buffer it will do this. Normally if software is still running, it will constantly replenish the circular buffer, half at a time. > Soooo.., how can I find out where /boot actually is? Typing: df /boot will return something like: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 75529312 54052356 17640236 76% / which shows that /boot is part of the /dev/hda1 filesystem that is mounted on "/". That is, it is *not* separate to the root partition. If it says something like: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 75529312 54052356 17640236 76% /boot (note the last bit (the numbers here are not realistic)) That means that /boot is on it's own separate partition. HTH, Pete ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 23:43:14 +0100 From: David M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Re: Configuring grub: how do I determine location of /boot? To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pete Ryland wrote in gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.british about: Re: Configuring grub: how do I determine location of /boot? > On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 06:48:07 +0100, David M wrote: >> (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..) > > The audio looping doesn't necessarily mean any software is still > running; if there is stuff in the audio buffer it will do this. > Normally if software is still running, it will constantly replenish > the circular buffer, half at a time. So, it's more the case that the soundcard is happily alive still doing what it was last told to (and not hearing instructions to the contrary), but the brain feeding it is pretty much dead? (..he said, rather morbidly) Nevertheless, with no graphical updates and no acceptance of input in this state, it's big red switch time regardless.. ;-) >> Soooo.., how can I find out where /boot actually is? > > Typing: > > df /boot > > will return something like: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 75529312 54052356 17640236 76% / > > which shows that /boot is part of the /dev/hda1 filesystem that is > mounted on "/". That is, it is *not* separate to the root partition. This is akin to what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df /boot Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb5 489285 227541 235640 50% / So, this means my /boot is part of / (which is on hdb5), so I can go ahead and run update-grub without too much fear.. =:-O Thanks for your help, 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 End of ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 13, Issue 2 **************************************** -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
